Sexist Myths Are a Danger to Health
In 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration made an unprecedented recommendation, advising that women should receive a lower dosage of the insomnia drug zolpidem than men. The rationale behind …
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The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors
The NHS app could not only allow appointments to be made, but also let patients receive notifications about vaccine campaigns, health tests, cancer screening, and even upcoming clinical trials. “Clinical …
Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life
“The adoption of new ideas and the pace of change in health care can lag behind other innovations that consumers experience every day,” says Yves Behar, an industrial designer and …
Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain
Designer Thomas Heatherwick thinks the construction industry is in a crisis. “We’ve just got so used to buildings that are boring,” says the man behind London’s revived Routemaster bus, Google’s …
Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed
“The statistics are frightening: Dementia is the biggest killer in the UK. It has been the leading cause of death for women since 2011,” says Hilary Evans, CEO of Alzheimer’s …
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
We need to make the exterior parts of buildings that people focus on more interesting, so that people want to protect rather than replace them. But most people aren’t architects …
Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
Extreme heat kills roughly half a million people worldwide each year, but at the current rate of global warming it could be close to five times as deadly by 2050. …