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“I wasn’t afraid to fail at my dream”: A physician-chef discusses her unusual career
How do you combine internal medicine, nutrition, culinary arts and public policy into a single career? Ask Michelle Hauser, MD, who has integrated her eclectic training into …
How your neighborhood can affect your health: A real-life experiment from Sweden
Imagine arriving in a new country, belongings on your back, and being randomly assigned to live in a neighborhood. Perhaps, using San Francisco Bay Area …
Thinking about “culture” as part of global well-being
Effective and ethical global-health initiatives involve some acknowledgement of culture - that is, they take into account local practices, beliefs, and circumstances, and they recognize that …
Reality TV influences perspectives on pregnancy, study shows
A new University of Cincinnati study on the influence that television programs have on pregnant women has found that most women are more affected by TV representations …
Report: Health-care industry needs to focus on women
The health-care industry needs to pay much more attention to women. That's the argument laid out in a recent piece on MedCity News, which shared findings of a survey (.pdf) …
Genetic testing, autism, and “fixing” the pathological body
How do we know what is pathological, versus what is normal? It seems obvious until you start thinking philosophically, which was the goal of a …
Anthropologist discusses Wikipedia’s implications for health information
Many of us turn to Wikipedia for quick answers to medical questions: What's an amniocentesis, or what's the difference between autism and Asperger's? Stanford University …