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 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
- Atul Gawande: Piecework
- Medicine’s money problem.
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, business, healthcare, medicine by soobrosa
- 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 by soobrosa
- Atul Gawande: The Bell Curve
- What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?
- 2009-10-11 to bestof, feedback, health, healthcare, medicine, quality, statistics by soobrosa
- Atul Gawande: The Score
- After Apgar, obstetricians decided that they needed a simpler, more predictable way to intervene when a laboring mother ran into trouble. They found it in the Cesarean section.
- 2009-09-27 to bestof, birth, child, children, history, labor, medicine, mother by soobrosa
- Roger Parloff: How marijuana became legal
- Medical marijuana is giving activists a chance to show how a legitimized pot business can work. Is the end of prohibition upon us?
- 2009-09-27 to bestof, business, drug, drugs, legal, legalization, medical, medicine, prohibition, recession by soobrosa
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