Successfully translating scientific discoveries requires a sense of urgency, which some disease foundations seem to have, and many big pharmas appear to need. Patients waiting expectantly for medical research to produce important new cures are finding bad news almost everywhere they turn.

A recent article by leading malaria scientists should set the record straight that malaria growth has not been caused by climate change.

What are the implications of the brain disease model of addiction?

Patients who take a close look at medical science in search of treatments are often appalled by what they discover. On the one hand, there's academic research, a self-contained and self-absorbed universe of its own where data may be internally consistent (on a good day) and robustly reproducible, yet often has little relevance to real-world clinical conditions.

Too much money is devoted to issues that seem well beyond the scope of a World Health Organization primarily concerned with infectious diseases.

While difficult to achieve, fundamental disability reform is possible.

The American economy is experiencing a crisis in long-term unemployment that has enormous human and economic costs.

The health service, like the entire country, requires rescuing from the murderous hands of Robert Mugabe.