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First issue of the Revista Internacional de Humanidades Medicas
Common Ground Publishing Spain published the first issue of the Revista Internacional de Humanidades Médicas. The journal opens a space for dialogue between medical professionals and the humanities...
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Bid to curb fried-food chemical goes cold
By Katharine Sanderson | Nature.com The rich, roasted aroma of coffee or the golden-brown colour of crispy French fries are enough to set most mouths watering. But the high-temperature cooking that...
View ArticleBugs in the system: Bacterial medicine is starting to emerge
From The Economist ONE of the crucial transitions of modern health care was from herbal to chemical medicine. Doctors had known for millennia that willow bark and poppy sap relieve pain. But it was...
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Grandma’s curse: Some of the effects of smoking may be passed from...
From The Economist ONE of biology’s hottest topics is epigenetics. The term itself covers a multitude of sins. Strictly speaking, it refers to the regulation of gene expression by the chemical...
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Drug Shortages Persist in U.S., Harming Care
By Katie Thomas | The New York Times Paul Davis, the chief of a rural ambulance squad in southern Ohio, was down to his last vial of morphine earlier this fall when a woman with a broken leg needed a...
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Chemical “soup” clouds connection between toxins and poor health
By Brendan Borrell | Nature Magazine From plastics to flame retardants, the ubiquitous chemicals of our daily lives have raised public health concerns like never before. Inside the Beltway, however,...
View ArticleStates Cut Antismoking Outlays Despite Record Tobacco Revenue
By Sabrina Tabernise | The New York Times Faced with tight budgets, states have spent less on tobacco prevention over the past two years than in any period since the national tobacco settlement in...
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Pardis Sabeti, the Rollerblading Rock Star Scientist of Harvard Read more:...
By Seth Mnookin | Smithsonian Magazine Pardis Sabeti pulls a BMW SUV into the breezeway at Harvard’s Northwest Laboratory, an airy, minimalist structure of smooth concrete, tropical hardwood, and lots...
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High-Fat Food Linked With Brain Chemical Changes, Withdrawal Symptoms, Mouse...
From The Huffington Post Eating junk food can actually change the brain, spurring symptoms of anxiety and depression if you stop consuming it, according to a new study in mice. Researchers from the...
View ArticlePost-traumatic stress disorder: Battle ready?
From The Economist WITH its deafening explosions, searing fires, dismembered corpses and stench of death, war pushes everyone it touches to the brink. Most recover naturally. Some, though, suffer...
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Think yourself well
From The Economist THE link between mind and body is terrain into which many medical researchers, fearing ridicule, dare not tread. But perhaps more should do so. For centuries, doctors have...
View ArticleThe Wrong Way to Fight Polio
By Helen Epstein | The New York Review of Books This week, nine members of a polio vaccination team in Pakistan were murdered by gunmen thought to be linked to the Taliban, which has long regarded...
View ArticleLifting the burden: People are living longer than ever before
From The Economist “THIRD WORLD” is not a term much used today. Most developing countries, as they were once euphemistically known, really are now developing—and doing so fast. So it is not...
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Destination: Wellness
By Jesse McKinley | The New York Times SO I’m sitting in a hotel in upstate New York with my feet in a bucket of warm water charged with electricity when it suddenly hits me that maybe “getting well”...
View ArticleEnergy Drinks Promise Edge, but Experts Say Proof Is Scant
By Barry Meier | The New York Times Energy drinks are the fastest-growing part of the beverage industry, with sales in the United States reaching more than $10 billion in 2012 — more than Americans...
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7-Eleven Shifts Focus to Healthier Food Options
By Stephanie Strom | The New York Times The chain that is home of the Slurpee, Big Gulp and self-serve nachos with chili and cheese is betting that consumers will stop in for yogurt parfaits, crudité...
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Shock to the Senses
By Siri Hustvedt | The New York Times Since his first extraordinary work, “Migraine,” was published in 1970, the neurologist Oliver Sacks has been writing a particular kind of medical literature. His...
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High-Fat Food Linked With Brain Chemical Changes, Withdrawal Symptoms, Mouse...
From The Huffington Post Eating junk food can actually change the brain, spurring symptoms of anxiety and depression if you stop consuming it, according to a new study in mice. Researchers from the...
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Mandatory flu vaccination and other sick policies
3quarksdaily.com | By Quinn O'Neill If you were a patient in a hospital, whom would you rather have caring for you: a healthy professional or someone who was febrile, coughing, and struggling to stay...
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Rethinking The Blood Donation Experience Amidst Growing Need
fastcodesign.com | BY Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan Though scientific knowledge of blood and hematology has increased exponentially since the first blood banks opened at the turn of the century, the...
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