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3 Signs You Are Too Creative for a 9-to-5
A "workday" is just not your thing.
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withassociates/flickr Should Doctors Get Paid Less If They Don’t Keep Patients Healthy?
One important piece of health policy where Republicans and Democrats agree
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Eat the Whole Apple
Word of the apple core myth is spreading far.
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Jim Bourg/Reuters Medicine's Problem of 'Incidental Findings'
Abnormalities on medical tests that weren't what doctors were looking for—and probably mean nothing—can cause a lot of anxiety, time, and money
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Paulo Whitaker/Reuters A Case Against High Chairs
Despite increasingly elaborate technology, babies are falling too often.
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Selfies at Funerals, Leaders-of-the-Free-World Edition
Everyone else is now absolved.
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Tsering Topgyal/AP Three Ways to Improve U.S. Healthcare, as Demonstrated in India
A cardiologist's experience in practice and travel
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Spreading HIV Is Still a Felony, Which May Abet Its Spread
Today the U.S. Senate will hear a bill to change the way many laws regard people with a chronic, treatable illness. Do laws that categorically criminalize HIV exposure, however unlikely the risk of transmission, actually increase its spread?
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Lars Plougmann/flickr How Hospitals Pass Their Obamacare Penalties on to Patients
An obscure classification allows hospitals to keep readmission rates down while patients unknowingly rack up higher costs.
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Stefan Wermuth/Reuters You're Getting Too Much Healthcare
Extraneous tests and referrals increasingly set back the U.S. medical system, and our health. How to avoid unnecessary care.
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ginnerobot/flickr How to Read About Science
Some studies mean so much more than others, and few mean anything without honest context.
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Alexey Losevich/Shutterstock Experiments to Do With Your Baby
Recreate real scientific scenarios. Stimulate two minds. The little ones are fascinating.
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Van Gogh/Wikimedia The Most Notable Health
Stories of 2013The year in review, from the editors of The Atlantic's Health Channel
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Alan Cleaver/flickr Should Bystanders Intervene When They Identify Mental Illness?
In two days of training, people are learning to recognize conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia in strangers, and what to do about it.
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China Daily CDIC / Reuters The Secret Life of Grief
My mom’s cancer and the science of resilience
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Shutterstock Why Babies Fear Plants
The evolutionary science that might be behind this strange infant aversion
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(B*2/flickr) After Antibiotics, the Feces Pill Remains
Some people with potentially lethal gut infections find that the only effective treatment is an orally-administered fecal transplant. The treatment is gaining acceptance among physicians.
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Wikipedia Would Lincoln Have Survived If He Was Shot Today?
The anatomy of the President's fatal wound, and what modern medicine could have done for him
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Answers to Every Possible Thanksgiving Health Question, 2013
This is going to be the best Thanksgiving ever. Prepare your body and mind accordingly.
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Beawiharta Beawiharta/Reuters The End of AIDS Will Be in Love
Working with my international AIDS foundation, I have witnessed discrimination, injustice, and indignation as the major barriers to treatment and cure.
