Content tagged "medicine"
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Narrative as an Aid for the Doctor-Patient Relationship in China
In China, when doctor-patient tension intensifies, some news media tend to blame the doctors, using misleading narratives to create sensationalism, thereby aggravating the antagonism between the society and medical professionals.
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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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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: Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
Barry Werth’s “The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma” gives a behind-the-scenes look at how a startup became one of the great triumphs of bio-tech.
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Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
Barry Werth’s most recent book, The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma, gives an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how a cash-starved startup became one of the great triumphs of American bio-tech innovation.
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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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Flashback: The Return of Psychedelic Medicine
Decades after they all but disappeared, psychedelic drugs are making a comeback.
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Hallowed Hands
This thesis explores the struggles and triumphs of human hand transplants through the stories of several patients and doctors.
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Computer, MD
A journalistic investigation of clinical decision support technology, its applications, and its effect on the medical profession.
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Caduceus to be featured on Classroom 2.0 live this Saturday
The Education Arcade game “Caduceus”, created in partnership with Boston-based Fablevision and Children’s Hospital Boston, will be featured on Classroom 2.0, with designers Alex Chishom and Wade Munday.
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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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The Education Arcade Aims Medical Adventure Game at Tweens
The Education Arcade (TEA) and Boston-based Fablevision are collaborating on Caduceus, an online puzzle-adventure game for tweens.
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Sense and Sense-ability: The Artful Science of Hands-on Medicine
Even in places where the technology exists, many physicians and healthcare professionals cannot or will not to cede their tasks to tools.
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Katie Jacobs: “It’s Never Lupus! Fox’s House, M.D. and the New Procedural Drama”
Katie Jacobs is co-showrunner of the hit NBC series House, M.D., nominated for two consecutive seasons for the Emmy Award for Best Drama Series.
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Cancer and the Clock: Chronotherapy’s Struggle for Legitimacy
Chronotherapy and how it must contend with the interests of drug companies, insurance providers and an overburdened medical system steeped in a culture famously resistant to change.
