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The new healthcare continuum
By Frans van Houten - Feb 04, 2015 - Last updated at Feb 04, 2015 00:18
The healthcare industry has changed dramatically over the past few decades. Research and development have given us astonishing new treatmen ...
Diseases without borders
By Jim Yong Kim - Feb 02, 2015 - Last updated at Feb 02, 2015 22:31
Today’s world seems more risk-laden than ever. The increasingly visible effects of climate change, rising geopolitical tensions, stat ...
Globalising sustainable development
By Manish Bapna - Jan 28, 2015 - Last updated at Jan 28, 2015 23:08
The question of how the world can end extreme poverty and improve human well-being will take on new urgency in 2015, as the Millennium Devel ...
Where has global warming gone?
By Ka-Kit Tung - Jan 24, 2015 - Last updated at Jan 24, 2015 22:24
For the last quarter of the 20th century, the average temperature at the surface of the Earth edged inexorably upwards. Then, to the surpri ...
Iran in the middle
By Michel Rocard - Dec 31, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 31, 2014 21:29
International negotiations over Iran’s nuclear programme have been taking place, in one form or another, for more than a decade. ...
A new direction for global health
By Tom Bollyky - Dec 30, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 30, 2014 22:34
It is easy to be discouraged about the state of international cooperation today, but global health remains an area in which the world has co ...
A decade of responsibility
By Ezra Karmel - Dec 30, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 30, 2014 22:32
Sovereignty is not the privilege of a state, but its responsibility. ...
Development for the people
By Abdoulaye Mar Dieye - Dec 24, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 24, 2014 22:10
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is destroying lives, decimating communities and orphaning children at a rate not seen since the region&rsq ...
The drag on e-cigarettes
By Le Houezec Jacques - Dec 23, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 23, 2014 23:42
Michael Russell and Murray Jarvik, two pioneers of smoking-cessation research in the 1970s, would probably have welcomed the development of ...
Divest in a better future
By Mike McGinn - Dec 20, 2014 - Last updated at Dec 20, 2014 23:08
Sometimes the best measure of a movement’s momentum is the reaction of its critics. ...

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