medicine
Ghana approves breakthrough malaria drug for babies — but research is ‘on ice’ amid US funding cuts
Ghana has approved the world’s first malaria drug for newborns, marking a breakthrough in infant care. But as rollout nears, US funding cuts are freezing critical research — threatening long-term progress in the fight against the disease.
Photographer Max Aguilera-Hellweg Goes Inside the Human Body
Portrait photographer and photojournalist Max Aguilera-Hellweg has documented the magnetic realm of the operating-room in his book, The Sacred Heart: An Atlas of the Body Seen Through Invasive Surgery, and the experience led him to change his life. Kurt Andersen talks with him about his extraordinary, beautiful, and sometimes disturbing images, and about the blurred […]
Blood for Art
The art market is flooded with money. And that concerns an artists’ collective in San Francisco called Quorum. When they brought their etchings, paintings, and mixed-media to a big international art fair, every piece was priced the same: a single pint of blood, collected on-site by a local blood bank. You call it morbid — […]
