
Health Care in a Huff: Breath Tests for Diseases
Breathalyzers, long a tool in police officers' quivers, may be coming soon to a doctor's office near you

Health Care in a Huff: Breath Tests for Diseases
Breathalyzers, long a tool in police officers' quivers, may be coming soon to a doctor's office near you

In Defense of the Value of Social Neuroscience
A social neuroscientist responds to the controversial critique that the results of imaging studies are routinely overstated.


Pumphead: Does the heart-lung machine have a dark side?
One man's experience with cognitive impairment after open-heart surgery

What is Kawasaki syndrome?
Actor John Travolta says that his son, who was found dead last week, suffered from this inflammatory disorder. Did it play a role in the teen's death?

Does Exercise Really Make You Healthier?
We examine five claims about the benefits of weight lifting and aerobics to see which carry the most...weight

Atherosclerosis: The New View
It causes chest pain, heart attack and stroke, leading to more deaths every year than cancer. The long-held conception of how the disease develops turns out to be wrong

What is CRP?
Peter Libby, chief of cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital, explains what C-reactive protein, one focus of the JUPITER study, may have to do with heart disease

Is Chronic Inflammation the Key to Unlocking the Mysteries of Cancer?
Understanding chronic inflammation, which contributes to heart disease, Alzheimer's and a variety of other ailments, may be a key to unlocking the mysteries of cancer

Jeers! Hazardous levels of metals found in wines
Are we swallowing toxic elements with every sip of vino?

Is 100 the New 80?: Centenarians Studied to Find the Secret of Longevity
Healthy aging may be possible with some genetic help

New Hope for Progeria: Drug for Rare Aging Disease
Researchers stave off premature heart failure in mice with genetic disorder

Molecular Machines That Control Genes
What new Howard Hughes Medical Institute president Robert Tijan said about the activities of our genes in 1995: They are tightly regulated by elaborate complexes of proteins that assemble on DNA. Perturbations in the normal operation of these assemblies can lead to disease