In this week’s podcast, Emily Badger reviews the rationale behind asking U.S. troops about their opinions on gays serving openly, and fellow Jessica Hilo examines promising advances in research on aging.
Joanne Goldblum saw poor people reusing disposable diapers and had to do something. Her nonprofit, The Diaper Bank, now gives 150,000 diapers a month to people in need.
Medicine does not always have the luxury of waiting until the mountains of needed research on any given problem are completed centuries from now. Physicians are tasked with treating real-world suffering today.