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global health

A Bitcoin on top of some pills

Executium on Unsplash.

Could blockchain technology protect patients from counterfeit medication?

Not so fast. We should be wary of trying to science our way out of large-scale health issues

Simon Spichak
An Anopheles stephensi mosquito is obtaining a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis. Note the droplet of blood being expelled from the abdomen after having engorged itself on its host’s blood. This mosquito is a known malarial vector with a distribution that ranges from Egypt all the way to China.

Center for Disease Control via Wikimedia Commons

Researchers create an effective RNA vaccine for malaria

Tech similar to COVID-19 mRNA vaccines might prevent one of the world's deadliest diseases

Marnie Willman
A woman and child washing their hands at the sink

CDC on Unsplash

Hand hygiene isn't implemented rigorously across the world, even in health care

It's not always easy to get alcohol or soap-based washes where they are needed

Farah Qaiser