Modified ecstasy could one day have a role to play in fighting some blood cancers, according to scientists. The drug is already known to effectively kill cancer cells isolated in test tubes.
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The world is facing a growing avalanche of death from heart attack, stroke, cancer, emphysema and diabetes, with many of the victims working-age people in poor countries.
On my old site, I had regular link roundups for all the stories I saw that interested me, but that I didn’t have the time to write about at greater […]
Engineers have used carbon nanotubes to create artificial muscle that moves like an elephant’s trunk, which could be used to propel microscopic nanobots through the bloodstream.
My previous post quoted Peter Hitchens, the conservative Christian brother of the late Christopher Hitchens, to criticize some of his views on divine command morality. To my surprise, it drew […]
A small but growing vanguard of people, mostly with rare diseases and cancers, have come to better understand their condition through sequencing their families’ genome.
The next Scientific Revolution is already underway. And it may make it possible for you to celebrate your 150th birthday, says Sonia Arrison.
The man who changed the world: Apple founder Steve Jobs dies weeks after quitting as boss of firm he started in his garage. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg praises his “mentor and friend.”
Stress. It is probably one of the biggest risks we face. The more worried you are that you might get sick, the more likely it is that you will, […]
A single dose of the hallucinogen psilocybin, the active ingredient in ‘magic mushrooms,’ brings about a measurable and lasting personality change—’openness’—lasting at least a year.
Too much alcohol dulls more than your wits. It also weakens your immune system and could make you much more vulnerable to viruses, including H.I.V.
A skin cancer group and advertising firm have used a spoof tanning product to trick 14,000 sun-worshippers into learning about the life-threatening effects of excess sun exposure.
Clinical trials show marijuana might be useful for pain, nausea and weight loss in cancer and HIV/AIDS and for muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis. But research funding is sparse.
Lawmakers and doctors are rushing to find remedies for critical shortages of drugs that treat life-threatening illnesses like bacterial infection and several forms of cancer.
As a film critic, it was unlikely that Roger Ebert’s life would read like a movie script. But it has. Surviving and overcoming personal obstacles has showed him the value of life beyond the cinema.
Hey, Michele Bachmann, you know who was really, really pro-vaccination? The Founding Fathers. Read all about it in my new article at The Nation. George Washington argued for mandatory inoculation […]
50/50 is a pretty profound movie. It’s also as perfectly cast as MONEYBALL, apparently because they were cast by the same person. MONEYBALL, of course, is about the attempt to […]
–Guest post by Kimberly Short, American University graduate student. In a 2009 article, Hamilton Bean analyzed the communication strategy of the 9/11 families in their successful pursuit to obtain answers […]
Mapping the many paths from fully bearded to clean-shaven
This has been a big week for the U.S. domestic airline industry and its embrace of environmentally-friendly biofuels. On Monday, a United Airlines jet completed the first-ever biofuel-powered commercial flight […]
There are 198 drugs—including critically needed antibiotics, cancer drugs, diuretics, sedatives, stimulants and vaccines—in short supply in the U.S.
At this year’s Lindau meeting of Nobel Prize winners, the virologist Harald zur Hausen said vaccinating only boys against the human papillomavirus would achieve better results.
The other day commenter Cotdail took issue with a tossed-off aside in my post about religion and happiness. I said the hostility of militant atheists to religion borders on madness, […]
Though the Bush administration never admitted it, its tax cuts would almost certainly push the incomes of rich and poor further apart. As incomes became more widely dispersed, the gap […]
Cancer research has found that injecting mice with tiny magnets and turning up their body heat eliminated tumors from the animals’ bodies with no apparent side effects.
Despite having $8.3 billion, Steve Jobs isn’t a public philanthropist. Must iconic business people give away substantial portions of their wealth to become well-rounded leaders?
When breast cancer researcher Dr. Elizabeth Iorns created a free online marketplace for outsourcing scientific experiments, the goals was to improve the efficiency of research.
A major study on women and smoking released by the World Health Organization last week provides further surprising evidence about how gender differences can affect health.
White-hot conservative and libertarian anger at the size and intrusiveness of government is getting a lot of attention these days. It seems so fierce, so single-minded; Let the federal […]
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say that by allowing nanoparticles to communicate with each other, the delivery of anti-cancer drugs can improve forty fold.