Think women have achieved equal footing in academia? Molly Carnes, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, begs to differ. The cofounder of …
Tag: medicine
Some good, some bad in the state of women’s health
There's good and bad news on the state of women's health research, according to a report released by the Institute of Medicine late last week. …
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 …
Why being human is important to being a doctor
Journalists are almost categorically underpaid and overworked - or unemployed. So when researchers at Northwestern University introduced a sports-reporting robot a few months back, it …
Abraham Verghese featured on PBS program
The PBS program "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly" today features a video profile of Abraham Verghese, MD, professor of medicine at Stanford and author of three …
Team completes genomic analysis of prostate cancer
Scientists have taken another small step in the march toward personalized medicine. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center announced yesterday it has assembled the “most comprehensive” genomic …
"Pro-ana" websites reflect users' conflicted inner worlds
In the world of disturbing web content, it doesn’t get much worse than so-called “pro-ana” and “pro-mia” sites. The virtual community boards, where anorexic and …