How Do You Design a Better Hospital? Start With the Light.

How Do You Design a Better Hospital? Start With the Light. Just as medical care has evolved from bloodletting to germ theory, the medical spaces patients inhabit have transformed too. Today, architects and designers are trying to find ways to make hospitals more...

Historic drought looms for 20 million living in Horn of Africa

Historic drought looms for 20 million living in Horn of Africa Historic drought looms for 20 million living in Horn of Africa From National Geographic comes this report of the climatic phenomenon known as La Niña, preventing nourishing rains for the fourth season in a...

Dr. Paul Farmer

Dr. Paul Farmer, global health champion, Harvard Medical School professor, anthropologist and co-founder of the nonprofit health organization Partners in Health, has died at age 62. According to the tweet, Farmer “unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep...