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Soobrosa's Bookmarks: medicine

Brendan I. Koerner: Secret of AA - After 75 Years, We Don’t Know How It Works
AA doesn't work for everybody, but when it does, it can be transformative.
2010-07-07 to alcohol, bestof, drinking, faith, group therapy, medicine, placebo, religion, therapy
Ariel Levy: Either/Or
Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya.
2010-07-07 to africa, bestof, gender, medicine, sports, statistics
Dan Hurley: Robotic Pancreas - One Man’s Quest to Put Millions of Diabetics on Autopilot
The biggest obstacle? Bureaucratic logjams.
2010-06-14 to bestof, data, diabetes, diabetics, medicine
The unrepentant chocolatier
The world’s biggest food company is betting on an emerging class of health and nutrition products to spur its growth. But risks abound.
2010-01-17 to bestof, business, fmcg, food, medicine, nestlé, nestle, nutrition, supplements
Jerome Groopman: The Colic Conundrum
The crying that doctors can’t stop.
2010-01-12 to bestof, childrearing, children, colic, crying, medicine, parenting, science
Janet Maslin: A Quest for Knowledge Inspired by a Devastating Loss
One in three of us will develop cancer in our lifetimes.
2010-01-02 to books, cancer, history, medicine, science, story
Michael Chorost: Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again
Treating Parkinson’s and other brain diseases could be just the beginning. Optogenetics has amazing potential, not just for sending information into the brain but also for extracting it.
2009-12-11 to bestof, brain, communication, genetics, medicine, mind, nerves, science
Amy Wallace: An Epidemic of Fear - How Panicked Parents Skipping Shots Endangers Us All
The result is that science must somehow prove a negative — that vaccines don’t cause autism — which is not how science typically works.
2009-11-21 to autism, bestof, medicine, science, statistics, vaccination, vaccines
Atul Gawande: Piecework
Medicine’s money problem.
2009-10-11 to bestof, business, healthcare, medicine
Atul Gawande: The Way We Age Now
Medicine has increased the ranks of the elderly. Can it make old age any easier?
2009-10-11 to aging, bestof, health, healthcare, medicine, society

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