Frontline health workers were sidelined in $3.3bn fight against Ebola – Newsweek

How cultures evolved in the fight against Ebola – National Geographic

In Sierra Leone’s capital, Ebola found fertile ground – National Geographic

A struggle to track victims’ elusive contacts – National Geographic

Blood transfusions show early promise as Ebola cure- Al Jazeera

Quarantines without food threaten Ebola response – Al Jazeera

How poverty, slavery and conflict fueled the Ebola outbreak – Newsweek

Hail to the chiefs: Local leaders in the epidemic – The Economist

Clinical trials with the blood from Ebola survivors – The Economist

Sierra Leone’s bravest young doctors – Nova/PBS

Ebola survivors are suffering, and we’re just learning how and why – Slate

How slow responses made Ebola so deadly – Nautilus

Images from the real face of the Ebola crisis – Scientific American

Teen Ebola survivor protects orphanage – Al Jazeera

Mistrust adds another layer of delay to Ebola vaccine trials – Al Jazeera

Side effects vex malaria measure in the face of Ebola – Nature

Ebola hysteria looks familiar to AIDS activists – Newsweek

One doctor’s gift to the nurses who fought alongside her -NPR

Lost on the Ebola money trail – Humanosphere

The Genesis Engine: No Hunger. No Pollution. No Disease. And the end of life as we know it.

A focus on health to resolve urban ills

Malaria prevention, with reward and risk

Fighting TB with a drive-in film and test

                                                           

Digging through the world’s oldest graveyards
*Featured in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015

Go Home Evolution, You’re Drunk

The Cambrian explosion of animal life now seems like a whimper

Hans Rosling will change your mind
He’s influenced Melinda Gates and Fidel Castro. Now he’s on a mission to save the public from their preconceived ideas.

Big Pharma’s Cost-Cutting Challenger
A non-profit is proving that drug development doesn’t need to cost a billion.

Race against Resistance
More than a million healthy children take drugs to prevent malaria, before the drugs stop working.

Death at the Doorstep
Uganda may be losing a battle with malaria.

Vitamin D-lemma
A vociferous debate reveals how hard it is to give public health advice.

Translational Research the American Way
If discoveries abound, why is drug development stagnant?

Evolution: A can of worms
Tiny creatures take centre stage in a battle to rearrange the tree of life.

Anti-vaccination movement strikes Bible Belt states

Can we rely on the private sector to halt malaria in Africa?

Native crops in Ethiopia serve as protection from hunger

Sudan sanctions isolate scientists and doctors, and deprive a nation of healthcare

Gene patents stand in the way of personalized medicine

GMOs could help feed the world with fewer pesticides

Three part series on a flesh-eating fungal disease, and the scientists in Sudan who want to stop it. 

Three part series on people poisoned by cyanide in the staple crop, cassava.

#Motobabes
As the legion of women bikers grows nationwide, I open up the throttle with a manic New York City club.

Sierra Leone’s Free Healthcare Initiative

Evolutionary Enigmas
Comb jelly genetics suggest a radical redrawing of the tree of life.

Sick and Down
Inflammation could cause depression.

Twice Upon a Time
Mammals may have evolved from reptiles in multiple ways.

Vitamin D on Trial
Scientist dig for gold-standard proof of D’s potential.

Preserving Research
A guide to the top online archives for your unpublished findings.