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Today in Research: A Vaccine for HIV; LSD as Alcoholism Treatment
In a monumental discovery that could help lead to eliminating the virus altogether, doctors have finally stopped a "notoriously persistent" strand.
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Coke and Pepsi Change Recipes to Avoid Printing Cancer Warnings
California's new law requiring companies to put a warning label on products containing a recognized carcinogen prompted the change.
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What Makes People in One City Fatter Than Those in Another?
Obesity rates vary considerably across cities and metro areas because it's strongly linked to economic development and other factors.
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The Surprise Question: Would Your Doctor Be Shocked If You Died?
With studies showing an answer to the question is a significant prognostic indicator, it's a simple way of screening for palliative care eligibility.
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The Policy That Keeps Prostitutes From Carrying and Using Condoms
New York isn't the only place where cops can use condom possession to justify arrest, but sex worker advocates there are pushing a bill.
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The Twitching Condition in Le Roy
It sounds archaic, but conversion disorder is likely to blame for the wave of tics and other symptoms that struck this tiny New York town, according to The New York Times Magazine.
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Transforming the Way We Die
Our cultural tendency is to avoid serious conversations about end of life, and mortality has become politically polarized, but the longer we wait, the harder it will be to avoid disaster.
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Which Fad Diet Is Right for You?
A look at what differentiates some of the media's recent dietary darlings, including the gay food diet, the Manhattan Girl diet, and the gluten-free diet, and the Paleo diet.
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Khaled Al Hariri / Reuters What's Really Making Us Fat?
It may not be as simple as calories in, calories out. New research reveals a far more complex equation for weight gain that places at least some of the blame on organic pollutants.
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Study of the Day: Gay Adults More Likely to Smoke, Less Likely to Quit
A new survey out of Colorado suggests that a different approach to smoking cessation might be necessary for the LGBT community.
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Making the Best of What Is Often the Very Worst Time of Our Lives
Though death is the most inevitable fact of life, our social systems are broken when it comes to caring for people with advanced illnesses.
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Blame It on the Alcohol: An Unintentional Bender in New Delhi
What happens when an abstainer, inspired by Islam and confirmed by palate, is accidentally served a daiquiri at a friend's wedding in India.
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The High Lands: Exploring Drug Tourism Across Southeast Asia
Whether they're seeking pleasure or meaning, more and more vacationers are experimenting with dangerous drugs from foreign cultures.
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Brad Bostic on Improving Patient Care While Lowering Costs
The CEO of hc1.com believes he has a product that addresses a critical need for health care professionals in every major medical discipline.
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Vital Signs: Intravenous Drugs and HIV Risk; Kids With Sleep Apnea
The latest facts and figures from the all of the most influential medical journals; newspapers; and health, fitness, and wellness websites.
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Moving Away From Death Panels: Health Reform for the Way We Die
There is surprisingly little disagreement about what constitutes good care at the end of life, but we still can't seem to fix any of our problems.
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The Robots of Medicine: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Costs?
In theory, surgical robots should assist humans with tasks that we have trouble with, but we're still outperforming them in many ways.
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Making Tiny, Flexible Electronics for Use Inside the Human Body
MC10 is working to take electronics out of the proverbial box and speed development so that we can improve wearable medical devices.
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Sometimes Headphones Work Too Well: Injuries to Pedestrians Climb
Deeply affected by the death of a teenager who didn't hear a train coming down the tracks, a pediatrician rounded up similar accidents.
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The Schmallenberg Virus Raises New Concerns About Food Safety
Experts are keeping close watch on a virus spread by biting bugs that is causing congenital defects in cattle and small ruminants.
