How do you get an ambulance to someone in need on dirt roads in the middle of Africa? Well, a Zambulance. Most people never consider the incredible logistics behind the ambulance system in the industrialized world, or just take...
Last week we saw how the global drive to eradicate polio has suffered a serious setback due to the politicisation of vaccination efforts and prolonged violence in certain areas of the planet. However, it would be a mistake to a...
This is a rather significant departure from my normal writings. Usually, I tap out a piece on US politics or international affairs, or terrorism. This is different. This is something that I have been deliberating a lot on recen...
Scientists are a step closer to developing an antibody treatment for HIV, after the first human trial of a new therapy reduced the amount of virus in patients’ blood. A trial of 17 patients demonstrated that a high dose of a...
In the United States, an estimated 19.3% of women have been sexually assaulted at least once during their lifetime. For Jacqueline Ros, CEO of Revolar, this issue certainly hits close to home. Ros was motivated to develop a per...
108 genes have been identified as being linked to schizophrenia, some of which we already knew about, but most of which are newly found revelations. The encouraging results have also convinced the US to invest $650 million into...
Bhoomi (then Kumudu) and I studied together at an all-boys college in Colombo. We weren’t friends really, he was one year senior to me: but I knew of him (everyone did). While we practiced for the Shakespeare Drama Competiti...