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Global Issues

10 bold ideas for ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic10 bold ideas for ending the HIV/AIDS epidemic

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

When Celine, a housewife in West Cameroon, was diagnosed with HIV six years ago, she signed up to be part of a clinical trial that gave her the antiretroviral drugs she needed, for free. However, when doctor and clinical researcher Boghuma Kabisen Titanji met Celine five years later, she had gone without antiretrovirals for a […]

Science

5 ideas for streamlining the way we test pharmaceuticals5 ideas for streamlining the way we test pharmaceuticals

Posted By Kate Torgovnick

TED Fellow Nina Tandon has engineered human heart tissue in the lab — that actually beats. Though it may sound like a plot from a science fiction universe, someday, surgeons could use this tissue in the same way that mechanics use spare parts in cars. But there is another potential use for this lab-created tissue […]