Cambridge is home to the world's most innovative biotech companies. Resident Neil Kairen explains the importance of this industry and suggests explanations for why so many misunderstand its value.

Researchers in Pennsylvania are working on a cure for Parkinson’s. Price controls threaten their progress.

A company in Virginia is working on a vaccine to protect babies from rotavirus and norovirus.

Governments around the world have withheld access to life-changing medications for people with cystic fibrosis (CF) for years in the name of being hawkish on drug pricing.

Alzheimer’s and diseases like it have horrible costs on individuals, caregivers, and their families. A treatment for Alzheimer’s would not only relieve suffering for the patient and their family, but it would increase the productivity of millions of Americans and lower direct and indirect costs associated with care. And, once the treatment becomes generic, it will permanently upgrade human health for much less.