Content tagged "health"
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When Going to the Bathroom Becomes Scary
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) reports that every six seconds–every six fleeting seconds–diabetes takes another person’s life.
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The Angelman Approach: Hacking DNA to Treat a Rare Disease
Recent advances are allowing clinicians to treat genetic illnesses by directly manipulating patients’ DNA, and a number of scientists are now investigating ways to leverage those discoveries for individuals with Angelman Syndrome. Their work could lead to potent therapies for the disease, and – maybe – even a cure.
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Trial and Error: Medical Marijuana, the Absence of Evidence, and the Allure of Anecdote
Patients, caregivers, scientists, physicians, pharmaceutical companies, and dispensary growers alike are calling for changes to government policies that restrict research. It’s high time to separate politics from science.
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Subconcussive Blows in High School Football: Putting Young Brains at Risk
Even as public awareness of concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) reaches new heights, subconcussive blows continue to fly under the radar.
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Podcast: Jane McGonigal discusses “SuperBetter” with MIT’s Scot Osterweil
Jane McGonigal is the internationally acclaimed game designer and author, most recently of “SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games”.
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Jane McGonigal discusses her new book “SuperBetter” with Scot Osterweil
Join us and Harvard Book Store as it hosts Jane McGonigal to discuss “SuperBetter” with our own Scot Osterweil of The Education Arcade.
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I Carry You in My Heart: Facing an Incurable Prenatal Diagnosis
The increasing sophistication and prevalence of prenatal diagnostic tests means that prospective parents and their doctors are grappling with ethical questions unheard of just half a century ago.
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Maximum Containment: The Most Controversial Labs in the World
The repurposing of these labs could make them an invaluable contributor to the United States public health system.
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SIGN HERE: Informed Consent in Personalized Medicine
In order for personalized medicine to become a reality, society will have to prepare itself for our ever-changing ethical, technological and scientific landscape.
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The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy
In The Panic Virus, Mnookin interviews parents, public-health advocates, scientists, and anti-vaccine activists to task: How do we decide what the truth is?
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Aspartame: Artifice and the Science of Sweet
Aspartame has become an extremely popular artificial sweetener since its entry into the American market in 1981. This thesis takes a journalistic look at how artifice came to satisfy the human sweet tooth.
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Lessons from a Rare Disease
The story of The Progeria Research Foundation’s creation when Sam Berns, son of doctors Leslie Gordon and Scott Berns, was diagnosed with progeria in 1998, is also the story of the birth of modern progeria research.
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Reentry
Interviews with astronauts, NASA flight surgeons, medical researchers, and psychological support personnel to describe a part of the space program the public rarely sees.
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Ghost at the Machine: Internet Addiction and Compulsive Computer Use
What does Internet Addiction mean in the context of our modern society?
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Abandoned Minds: The Escalating Crisis of Geriatric Mental Illness
The medical, social, and political challenges facing patients, researchers, advocates, clinicians and caregivers in the coming decades – and today.
