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Healthy Soil Microbes, Healthy People
The microbial community in the ground is as important as the one in our guts.
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Study: Identifying Suicide Risk Factors
People with depression are at a 32 times increased risk, while social factors are more closely associated with suicide in men than in women.
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Sebastien Malo The Story of the Black Band-Aid
A reinvention of "flesh-colored"
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The Drawbacks of Data-Driven Medicine
"I have often beheld two such sages almost sinking under the weight of their packs."
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The Future of Getting Paid to Be Healthy
Pairing financial incentives and workplace wellness programs, employers can save money, and employees can make it.
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Ask Alison: Break Up Promptly, and Always Unfriend
Good advice from someone who is terrible at dating
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The New Idealism of International Aid
Developing countries are often passive recipients of international health aid. Now they'll be getting the freedom to decide what to do with it.
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Study: Science Can Change the Sexual Orientations of Mice
By altering serotonin in their brains, researchers caused female mice to prefer to mount and sniff the genitals of other females.
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Finding the Right Hospital
What's good for patient satisfaction may not be good for medicine. Awash in marketing, the key questions to consider when choosing a hospital
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Boy Scouts Recognize Gay Boys as Equal
Today the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America voted to include openly gay boys and young men. Some fear this will result in "injection of hypersexuality and gay activism into a youth organization." It won't.
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Race Is Not Biology
How unthinking racial essentialism finds its way into scientific research
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How Exercising at Work Saves Money
Creation of worksite wellness programs is promoted by parts of the Affordable Care Act. If your office doesn't have a gym, it soon might -- out of the company's interest.
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For Kids, Plastic Surgery Not Always the Answer
The many considerations in "repairing" the face of a child
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Eradicating Polio in India: Portraits
Public health workers have taken on the mission of vaccinating 170 million children under the age of five.
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Study: Kids Are Prejudiced Against Fat People by Age 4
British elementary school students believed an overweight storybook character was more likely to be naughty and less likely to have friends.
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How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy
The modern birth announcement
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How Drug Companies Keep Medicine Out of Reach
The promise of delinking research and development from the actual manufacture of drugs, and why the pharmaceutical industry rejects an idea that could turn neglected diseases into profit
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There's More to Life Than Freezing Your Eggs
Societal changes that help working mothers would be much more effective -- and much less expensive -- than telling women to postpone procreation.
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Yeast: Love and Fear, Death and Beer
Single-celled fungi all around us do so much good and so much bad.
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Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred
Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends?
