In a world where medication costs are skyrocketing and pharmaceutical companies search out ever-higher profit, KPFK’s Cary Harrison interviews Barbara Handelin Ph.D. of Audacity Therapeutics. Barbara talks about how repurposing existing medications can bring down costs while treating a broader ra...

Barbara Handelin of Audacity Therapeutics is on an important mission to change the way in which funds can be raised for drug development and/or repurposing to meet the needs of the 90 per cent of us who have a condition with no effective treatment. She and her team’s work may likely change an ind...

The stars aligned to cause disabled Marine Cpl (veteran) kenneth james to first be tapped by #EndVetMedDebt to have his artwork – “Suicide Bridge” – become the landing page art for a major campaign launch regarding veteran medical debt, and then to become selected as our Impact Artist for the mon...

Before we get to the medical debt part where there are millions of dollars in medical debt on the backs of our bravest (veterans owe money for medical services?), were you even aware that May is marked officially as the month in which we honor our military? Do you know that the month also honors...

After earning a Ph.D. in human genetics in 1987, I chose to enter the nascent biotechnology industry rather than pursue conventional academic science. Venture capitalists in Cambridge, Mass, and elsewhere had caught wind of revolutionary genetic discoveries in university labs and academic medical...