medicine

Spain has the world's highest deceased organ donation rate — 49 donors per million people — and has held that position for more than three decades. The secret is not Spanish generosity but a system redesign: opt-out consent, transplant coordinators in every hospital, and a culture of medical trust. Here's what the data shows.

The "Big Pharma is hiding the cancer cure" claim is one of the oldest conspiracy theories. Here's why basic economics, biology, and the way drug development actually works make it impossible.

Antibiotics transformed medicine. Used right, they cure deadly infections in days. Used wrong, they're driving one of the biggest health threats we face. Here's how they really work.