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What Makes a Medical School Great?
With only 20,000 new M.D.'s graduating each year to help care for a nation of over 310 million people, optimizing their education is critical.
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A Generational Shift in Understanding Life With Down Syndrome
The change has been dramatic.
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Road to 'Drunkorexia'
The downsides of the weight-conscious alcohol boom
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Don't Let the Dream of Open Access Journals Die
Northwestern University pays more than $7.5 million per year for electronic subscription to academic journals. How research advancements can and should be shared widely and freely
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Christian Hartmann / Reuters The Internet 'Narcissism Epidemic'
Don't let popularity set your standard.
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What Business Can Learn From Medicine
Question the intuitive "best" practice; never assume we know enough.
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Study: Black Children Are Less Likely to Be Prescribed Antibiotics Than Children of Other Races
Doctors were less likely to diagnose and treat black children with antibiotics for respiratory infections, compared to their non-black peers.
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How Health Research Misdirects Us
Improving one isolated health parameter such as blood pressure does not necessarily make us healthier overall. Studies will not supplant the basic principles of living well.
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Raising Babies Who Never Use Diapers
How green does your child grow?
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Study: Mediterranean Diet Can Save Money
Investing in learning to cook with plants and olive oil could save money in the long run.
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HIV Cures: Where We Are, Realistically
An infectious-diseases specialist breaks down the reported breakthroughs
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If It's Green, It Must Be Healthy
What does it say about our ability to be informed consumers that we interpret nutrition labels based on their color?
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Images of India Beating Polio: Two Years Without a New Case
Scenes from the historic vaccination movement
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Should Your Doctor Pray With You?
People in the hospital are usually in hard times. Nearly half would like their doctor to pray with them.
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Fatsmack: What it Takes to Make Health Campaigns Stick
To compete against the soda companies on a relatively meager budget, a Boston diabetes campaign attempted to leverage the power of social psychology.
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The Emotional Psychology of a Two-Party System
Defense mechanisms that incline us to embrace one side and fully reject the other makes compromise nearly impossible.
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Human Connection and the Downside to Private Hospital Rooms
What the fanciest hospital suites forget
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How Racism Is Bad for Our Bodies
'Stop and Frisk' is a threat to public health.
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The Grand Vision of Dr. Heimlich, After the Maneuver Limelight
The man who's saved countless people from choking has had less luck curing cancer and AIDS.
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Since 2008, Insurers Have Been Required by Law to Cover Mental Health—Why Many Still Don't
The concept of equal insurance care for mental health and medical services has been established, but significant hurdles prevent its actualization.
