From age-old threats to emerging hazards: 20 research challenges for the next 10 years.
Spiking fever, searing muscle and joint pain, blood seeping through the skin, shock and possibly death—the severest form of dengue fever can inflict unspeakable misery. Once rare, dengue fever now threatens more than 2.5 billion people. What will it take to stop an old disease spreading with a new vengeance?
Can an integrated neighborhood in Southwest Baltimore help overturn decades of race-based assumptions about the origins of health disparities?
The decade-long JiVitA project—one of the largest nutrition trials of its kind—has recruited 100,000 pregnant women and their babies with a grand goal in mind: Find new ways to save lives in South Asia.
Our culture of 24/7 distractions and demands is sapping our sleep. As up to 70 million Americans report chronic sleep problems and fewer adults get sufficient pillow time, scientists are making new connections among dreams, disorders and disease.