There is no doubt that China’s ongoing growth slowdown has had far-reaching effects on the global economy.But its role in the sharp fall in commodity prices that has occurred since 2014 — an outcome that has been devastating for commodity-exporting countries, including once

By El Hassan bin Talal and Sundeep WaslekarThis year’s World Water Day, on March 22, provides an opportunity to highlight what in many countries has become a grim reality: the availability of fresh water is increasingly a defining strategic factor in regional and global affairs.U

Over the last few decades, oil prices have fluctuated widely — ranging from $10 to $140 a barrel — posing a challenge to producers and consumers alike.For policymakers, however, these fluctuations present an opportunity to advance the key global objectives — reflected in the Sust

Seven years after the global financial crisis erupted in 2008, the world economy continued to stumble in 2015.According to the United Nations’ report World Economic Situation and Prospects 2016, the average growth rate in developed economies has declined by more than 54 per cent

 US President Barack Obama’s administration recently issued an appeal for ideas to advance its “precision medicine initiative”, which will channel millions of federal research dollars towards efforts to tailor clinical treatment to individual patients.The idea of personalise

No doctor can forget his or her first patient with toxoplasmosis, a harrowing parasitic infection found in people with compromised immune systems, such as patients with advanced HIV/AIDS.After infecting one’s organs and brain, it causes an altered mental state, fever, shaking chi

We live in extraordinary times.

 Virtually everyone in the scientific community agrees that ensuring sufficient food supplies for a surging human population, which is set to grow by 2.4 billion by mid-century, will require serious work.Indeed, we have not even succeeded at providing enough food for today’s

In an ideal world, everyone, everywhere, would access the health services they need without having to pay more than they could afford.But is “health for all” — also known as universal health coverage — really possible, not just in rich countries, but in the poorest countries, too