Health
Take Two Sugar Pills and Call Me in the Morning
Genetic tests can predict when placebos may be the best medicine.
Is the World Making You Sick?
The chemicals in our everyday lives are, argues immunologist Claudia Miller.
If Trauma Victims Forget, What Is Lost to Society?
A pill to dampen memories stirs hope and worry.
Fruits and Vegetables Are Trying to Kill You
Antioxidant vitamins don’t stress us like plants do—and don’t have their beneficial effect.
America Is Getting the Science of Sun Exposure Wrong
Why U.S. dermatologists won’t base recommendations on skin color.
Take Light, Not Drugs
How light therapy can treat disorders from depression to Alzheimer’s disease.
Losing His Sight, a Scientist Sees an End to a Deadly Disease
Bill Jacobs lights the way to better tuberculosis drugs.