I live in a small house with eight friends, six chickens and a puppy. When one of us gets sick, many others follow suit. (So …
Author: Julia James
Districts pushing back bells for the sake of teens' sleep
Last month, sleep researchers from Brown University confirmed what any adolescent already knows: School starts too early. Their study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics …
Children of sperm donors finding each other on the web
CNN.com has an interesting piece today about sperm-donor siblings finding each other and connecting on the web. A debate over the emotional implications of sperm …
New reality shows shine harsh light on teen pregnancy
Did you know the United States has the highest number of teen pregnancies in the industrialized world? Many of us would assume that fact has …
New blog keeps an eye out for discredited research
Scientific papers can get a lot of attention when they're first published, but it's rarely news when they're retracted - as they occasionally are - …
Why deplaning was Steven Slater's best move
It's hard not to love Steven Slater, the JetBlue attendant who on Monday made a theatrical departure from his 20-year career in the airline industry. …
Men facing stiff competition for females live shorter lives
You know the old saying about the chances of finding a husband in Alaska: The odds are good but the goods are odd? It turns …
New benefits raise concern over insurance rate hikes
It's been a long time coming, but pivotal elements of the federal health overhaul law will finally take effect next year. That's good news for …
Image of the Week: West Nile Virus
We're in the heart of mosquito season, which means heightened concern over West Nile Virus as it continued to crop up across the country this …
Prescription drugs and direct-to-consumer advertising
UPDATE 08-06-10: Part two of Ishmeal Bradley's series was published today on Clinical Correlations. In this segment, he discusses how direct-to-consumer advertising shapes physician prescribing …
Risk of hepatitis C infection grows with each tattoo
Lifestyles change; boyfriends come and go; skin sags. Tattoos hang around. That permanence, I've always assumed, is the only real downside of body art. I've …
The science of performing – or not – under pressure
Some of us are cool under pressure; most of us are not. Hence the term choking, aka screwing up when the stakes are high, aka …
Tensions high in debate over safety of home births
Home birth has been much in the news this summer, especially following the July publication of a study concluding the practice triples the risk of …
Might "healing prayer" actually heal?
Prayer can be unimaginably beautiful - or just really, really awkward, a la Ben Stiller's dinner grace in the film Meet the Parents: "We thank …
Studies show growing toll of obesity
Obesity, which once affected only a small part of the U.S. population, has become so prevalent that it's culturally entrenched - and that means its …
Keith Humphreys on the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010
The biggest difference between crack and powder cocaine is who uses it: The former has traditionally been the vice of African Americans; the latter (more …