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On the podcast this week: results from a major Harvard study on how to eat right. Also, a controversial new trend in how some divorced parents are raising their children. And finally, the war over government labeling of cigarettes and junk food. Click below to listen.
Number of annual deaths caused by malaria, primarily in babies and toddlers in sub-Saharan Africa, down from 1 million in 2008. The U.N.'s $5 billion eradication effort has reduced fatalities from the disease, and is keeping on track to rid the world of malaria by 2015, according to philanthropist Ray Chambers, the founder of Malaria [...]
Does your child have ADHD, or is he merely rambunctious? Few questions divide parents, teachers, and mental-health professionals as often as this one.
—ERIC CAMPBELL, associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, on the purpose of gifts from pharmaceutical companies to doctors [via Reuters]
Bruce Walker, an AIDS researcher at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital, has long been trying to understand why some people with HIV can remain untreated for decades and never progress to AIDS. On Nov. 4, Walker and colleagues published research that helps explain these HIV controllers: genetic variations that change key proteins in their [...]
My colleague Maia Szalavitz wrote a great piece we posted Monday on how an online test developed at Harvard can help uncover hidden biases in how you treat people.
While the extreme version of the low-carb diet — the controversial high-protein, high-fat Atkins Nutritional Approach — has fallen mostly out of favor since its peak in the 1990s, it did get one thing right: cutting out refined carbohydrates is good for our waistline.
Although arthritis is extremely common, people still have many misconceptions about the disease. How much do you really know?
