medicine
- 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
- Steve Silberman: Placebos Are Getting More Effective
- Drugmakers are desperate to know why.
- 2009-09-19 to bestof, business, data, medicine, pharma, pharmaceutical, pharmacology, placebo, placebo effect, statistics by soobrosa
- PsyBlog | Why Groups Fail to Share Information Effectively
- People trying to make decisions in groups spend most of their time telling each other things that everyone already knows. In comparison people are unlikely to bring up new information known only to themselves. The result: poor decisions.
- 2009-09-19 to bestof, business, decision, group, medicine, psychology by soobrosa
- Atul Gawande: The Cost Conundrum
- What a Texas town can teach us about health care.
- 2009-05-30 to bestof, business, health care, medicine, society by soobrosa
- Margaret Talbot: Brain Gain
- The underground world of “neuroenhancing” drugs.
- 2009-05-03 to bestof, competition, drug, enhancement, evolution, medicine, moral, society by soobrosa
- A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic
- Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children
- 2009-02-20 to bestof, future, health care, medicine, tecnology by bagoly
- Super Spice Secrets: Can This Miracle Spice Stop Cancer, Alzheimer's and Arthritis?
- For more than 5,000 years, turmeric has been an important part of Eastern cultural traditions, including traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Valued for its medicinal properties and warm, peppery flavor, this yellow-orange spice has more recently ea
- 2009-02-20 to bestof, food, health, medicine, spice by bagoly
- Thomas Goetz: Why Early Detection Is the Best Way to Beat Cancer
- If we find cancer early, 90 percent survive. If we find cancer late, 10 percent survive.
- 2009-02-08 to bestof, cancer, cure, detection, medicine, prevention by soobrosa
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