September 3, 2013
Control Your Urges with a Ride on the Mindbus
A promising psychological strategy frames thoughts as passengers on a bus
Alternative medicine
August 23, 2012
Do Post-Market Drug Trials Need a Higher Dose of Ethics?
Patients who sign up for trials testing more than one already approved intervention do not always know if one is being tested for harmful side effects
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July 24, 2012
A Single Brain Structure May Give Winners That Extra Physical Edge
An extraordinary insula helps elite athletes better anticipate their body's upcoming feelings, improving their physical reactions
HealthMay 1, 2012
Tomorrow's Medicine
A look at some of the most promising medical devices now in development
March 13, 2012
How Yoga Might Relieve Stress-Linked Ailments
Yoga may increase parasympathetic nervous system activity and neurotransmitter levels, helping to decrease symptoms of some stress-related illnesses. Katherine Harmon reports
October 27, 2011
Did Alternative Medicine Extend or Abbreviate Steve Jobs's Life?
The biomedical evidence for alternative or complementary treatments for cancer, beyond acupuncture, remains thin, although it probably didn't harm Jobs
July 6, 2011
Nutrition advice: The vitamin D-lemma
A vociferous debate about vitamin-D supplementation reveals the difficulty of distilling strong advice from weak evidence.
HealthJuly 1, 2011
The Best Medicine: Cutting Health Costs with Comparative Effectiveness Research
A quiet revolution in comparative effectiveness research just might save us from soaring medical costs
March 25, 2011
Health Care Myth Busters: Is There a High Degree of Scientific Certainty in Modern Medicine?
Two doctors take on the health care system in a new book that aims to arm people with information
HealthOctober 7, 2010
Alternative Biomedical Treatments for Autism: How Good Is the Evidence?
Research on only one treatment is rigorous enough to earn an A grade
July 6, 2010
Exposing the Student Body: Stanford Joins U.C. Berkeley in Controversial Genetic Testing of Students
Heated debate surrounds the ethics of the universities' decisions to analyze student DNA
March 10, 2010
Few Studies Compare the Efficacy of Medical Treatments
Despite a growing interest in comparative effectiveness research, little medical study is being done to improve this aspect of patient care