Medicine

What Is Chronic Kidney Disease, and How Might It Affect You?

In the U.S., a third of Americans are at risk of chronic kidney disease, and age is a major factor. More than half of Americans older than 75 are thought to have some sort of kidney damage...

January 12, 2021 — Dominic Smith and Andrew Robinson

Policy & Ethics

To Control COVID, Biden Needs to Marshal Federal Resources—and Change Attitudes

The incoming U.S. president must help skeptics see benefits in masks and persuade Congress to spend more money on testing and protective gear

January 12, 2021 — Tanya Lewis

Policy & Ethics

The Four Most Pressing Science Priorities for the Next President

January 12, 2021 — THE EDITORS

Public Health

Could New COVID Variants Undermine Vaccines? Labs Scramble to Find Out

Researchers race to determine why variants identified in Britain and South Africa spread so quickly and whether they’ll compromise vaccines

January 8, 2021 — Ewen Callaway and Nature magazine

Medicine

We Must Find Ways to Detect Cancer Much Earlier

The job of the oncologist of the future will be to prevent and treat the emergence of disease

January 8, 2021 — Members of The Oncology Think Tank | Opinion