I gave a TED talk?!
Few people know how much medicine has progressed in their lifetimes. Fewer know how much faster it could be progressing.
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Tracing the steps towards scientific progress.
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Medical breakthroughs in 2025
... and a happy new year.
Saloni's guide to data visualization
Why data visualization matters, and how to make charts more effective, clear, transparent, and sometimes, beautiful.
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Proteins are all around us, doing amazing things to keep life going.
Hard Drugs, my new podcast with Jacob Trefethen, and the story of a drug that could end AIDS.
How to speed up medical innovation, how to scale it up, and how to make sure lifesaving tools reach the people who need them the most.
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking
I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, just because of the decline in smoking.
We don't have to sit back and just watch the horror unfold
This month, I signed a pledge to donate at least 10% of my lifetime income to effective charities.
Five medical breakthroughs in 2024
It's December, and time for a retrospective on some breakthroughs in medical innovation this year.
Four charts to understand causes of death across the lifespan: A dataviz walkthrough
The key question I ask myself while making data visualization: What question am I trying to answer?
Many great things you missed this year
This week: Birth seasonality, causes of death across the lifespan, progress against HIV/AIDS & cystic fibrosis, very rare infectious form of Alzheimer’s, improvements in cholesterol, and more.