Skip to Content

Health

Take Two Sugar Pills and Call Me in the Morning

Genetic tests can predict when placebos may be the best medicine.

July 31, 2014

Is the World Making You Sick?

The chemicals in our everyday lives are, argues immunologist Claudia Miller.

July 17, 2014

If Trauma Victims Forget, What Is Lost to Society?

A pill to dampen memories stirs hope and worry.

June 25, 2014

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.

May 30, 2014

Take Light, Not Drugs

How light therapy can treat disorders from depression to Alzheimer’s disease.

March 6, 2014

Losing His Sight, a Scientist Sees an End to a Deadly Disease

Bill Jacobs lights the way to better tuberculosis drugs.

March 6, 2014