Articles by

Joao Medeiros

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...

The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors

In December last year, the UK’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, visited Singapore General Hospital, regarded as...

Sexist Myths Are a Danger to Health

In 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration made an unprecedented recommendation, advising that women should receive...

Aging Might Not Be Inevitable

In 1997, a French woman named Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122. She was the...

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold....

Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously Enough

In 2010, three months before her seventh birthday, Ella Roberta suddenly developed a chest infection and a...

Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain

Designer Thomas Heatherwick thinks the construction industry is in a crisis. “We’ve just got so used to...

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...