medicine
- Atul Gawande: Letting Go
- What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?
- 2010-08-04 to bestof, healthcare, hospice, medicine by soobrosa
- Thomas Goetz: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure
- As the cost of sequencing drops and research into possible associations increases, whole genome sequencing will become a routine part of medical treatment, just as targeted genetic tests are a routine part of pregnancy today.
- 2010-08-04 to bestof, cure, data, disease, gene, genetics, medicine, science, sequencing by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
- Ariel Levy: Either/Or
- Sports, sex, and the runner Caster Semenya.
- 2010-07-07 to africa, bestof, gender, medicine, sports, statistics by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
- Jerome Groopman: The Colic Conundrum
- The crying that doctors can’t stop.
- 2010-01-12 to bestof, childrearing, children, colic, crying, medicine, parenting, science by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
Newer / Older / Page 1 of 4
