November 12, 2019
(New York Times) – Anyone who has been a caregiver will relate to the unending grind of Joan’s decline, to Kleinman’s exhaustion and to his efforts to keep going. And he’s one of the lucky ones: He has the financial … Read More
October 29, 2019
(Nature) – Rosenhan’s study had far-reaching and much-needed effects on psychiatric care in the United States and elsewhere. By the 1980s, most psychology textbooks were quoting it. It also influenced society more widely, and not always positively: in the law … Read More
October 29, 2019
(Science) – A small bundle of human nerve cells are being cultured in a petri dish. The cells divide. They differentiate into cell types found in the brain. The cell network grows dense and develops brain-like structures—layers and folds. The … Read More
October 25, 2019
(Newsweek) – A devastating string of mass shootings has left the country reeling this year. But an even greater threat may be looming in the near future, one with the potential to cause far more widespread injury and loss of … Read More
October 22, 2019
(NPR) – Americans are losing trust in their doctors, says Dr. Marty Makary in his new book, The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care — and How to Fix It. The reason, he argues, is that medical care … Read More
September 20, 2019
(Undark) – Medical textbooks like Oxford Medical Education dryly state that “the aim of the ABCDE assessment is to keep the patient alive and achieve the first steps to improvement.” Emergency physicians and nurses across the world use the ABCDE … Read More
September 20, 2019
(CNN) – “You learn a lot by almost dying,” he says. He learned enough to surprise his doctors by coming up with a way to treat his disease. Almost six years later he’s in remission, he and his wife have … Read More
September 13, 2019
(Undark) – In 2015, George Church, a geneticist at Harvard University, announced a stunning breakthrough: Working with pig embryos, he and his colleagues had managed to disable 62 different retrovirus genes in one fell swoop. “This would have been virtually … Read More
August 27, 2019
(Science) – Major academic figures admonish “immoral experiments on the unborn.” An advertisement in The New York Times cautions about the “unknowable risks to human lives.” A government official calls for an ethics board to investigate “attempts to control the … Read More
August 13, 2019
(Nature) – Amy Gutmann and Jonathan Moreno have long been at the heart of bioethics debates, and served together for seven years on Barack Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. Their book Everybody Wants to Go to … Read More
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