Lisa Jarvis

Lisa Jarvis is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering biotech, health care and the pharmaceutical industry. Previously, she was executive editor of Chemical & Engineering News.

Locals washing their hands at a checkpoint set up for preventive measures against the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Ebola science is moving fast; it might not be enough

The tension is worsening between scientific advances and the realities that make it difficult to translate them into lives saved