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'The Most Dramatic Advance in Treating Depression in Decades'
Focusing on getting quality sleep, specifically through cognitive behavioral therapy, is the talk of the moment in depression treatment.
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Shutterstock Who Becomes a Surrogate?
There are often “have” and “have not” differentials at play in the surrogate-intended parent relationship. The surrogates already have the ability to create babies; the intended parents have money. They are usually better educated, and far more economically secure. Sometimes these dynamics can create subtle tensions.
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Wikimedia Commons On the Vexing, Very Recent Spate of Healthy People Getting Neck Cancer
Over the next two decades, the number of Americans with oropharyngeal cancer is projected to roughly double. Most of the cases, doctors have realized in recent years, are caused by a preventable infection.
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Christian Charisius / Reuters Why We're Sometimes Kind Without Reason
Our brains are constantly, subtly being primed in fascinating ways by our physical surroundings.
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Wikimedia Commons Who Does Your Physician Work For?
Fewer than half of U.S. doctors are self-employed, down from over three quarters in 1983. How that affects delivery of healthcare
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Shutterstock After the ICU: What Does It Mean to Be 'Okay'?
Patients who require intensive hospital care often go home with serious mental and emotional scars that go unaddressed. The ICU can be a microcosm of a healthcare system's inability to see bigger pictures for life after illness.
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Shutterstock For Breast Cancer, Aggressive Treatment Does Not Mean Better Treatment
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I considered having a bilateral mastectomy—until I collected myself and weighed the options.
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Murad Sezer / Reuters How Many of Your Memories Are Fake?
When people with Highly Superior Autobiographical Memory—those who can remember what they ate for breakfast on a specific day 10 years ago—are tested for accuracy, researchers find what goes into false memories.
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Shutterstock As Babies, We Knew Morality
New research supports the understanding that all people are born with a sense of good and bad. What does that say about altruism, community, and the capacity to kill one another?
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Apple Cores Are a Myth
You can eat the whole apple. Americans could be throwing away $13.2 billion.
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Wikimedia Commons All Bullies Are Narcissists
Stories of bullying and hazing in the news break down to narcissism and insecurity.
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The Cancer Vaccine
Only one in three American girls is vaccinated against HPV. That will mean thousands of gratuitous cancer deaths. Young people in the South are especially unlikely to get the vaccine, according to a new study. Why?
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters Does McDonald's Belong in a Children's Hospital?
Unhealthy endorsement vs. comfort food at a trying time
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Matt Rourke/AP Letting Medical Students Run the Clinic
Though some feel they compromise quality, student-run clinics are an option to provide care for the uninsured.
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AP The Chaos After the Super Typhoon
One of history's most powerful storms has devastated the central Philippines, priming it for a public-health crisis. For many survivors, awaiting aid, the scene is perilous.
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Richard Drew/AP The Trans-Fat Ban as a Model of Slow Health Policy
An imminent ban on the ingredient illustrates the importance of consumer awareness.
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Wikipedia The Four Horsemen May Charge Over the Earth—but Coca-Cola Will Remain
How alcohol prohibition made soda king
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters Obsessive Thoughts: A Darker Side of OCD
Depictions in media tend to focus on the compulsive behavior. Obsessive thinking like mine, though, can be debilitating.
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Daquella manera/flickr Study: Black Students With Black Teachers Have Lower Rates of Teen Pregnancy
Minority role models seem to be at the heart of some positive outcomes for students.
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Walt Stoneburner/flickr A Same-Sex Domestic Violence Epidemic Is Silent
Typical framing of partner abuse as a heterosexual issue—with men abusing women—does a disservice to victims in abusive homosexual relationships.
