Public confidence in big business is in bad shape, not least because so many CEOs have been caught lying to investors and the public. It’s hard to know who to believe anymore. So two researchers from Stanford’s Graduate School of …
Q&A: An Author Takes Back Her Accusation of Incest
Mind Reading is TIME Healthland’s new series of talks with authors of “brainy” books. Following is a conversation with journalist and author of My Lie, Meredith Maran, who falsely accused her father of molesting her.
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It’s Fat-Talk Free Week (and You Could Win $1,000)
Did you know that 54% of women would prefer to be hit by a truck than be fat? Yep, you read that right. That women obsess about their weight is hardly news; if you think that should change, you might want to celebrate Fat-Talk …
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Working Moms’ Kids Turn Out Fine, 50 Years of Research Says
Another day, another study on whether women who work are jeopardizing their children’s well-being. According to a review of 50 years of research on the subject, kids whose moms went back to work before the kids were 3 years old …
New CPR Rules: Pump First, and Save the Breaths for Later
If you saw someone in cardiac arrest, would you know what to do? If you had ever been trained in CPR, you might remember your ABCs — airway, breathing, chest compressions.
Is Your Touch-Screen Dirtier than a Toilet Flusher?
Insert “going viral” joke here: a study conducted by Stanford researchers found that letting your friends handle your cool new touch-screen device could mean sharing more than the latest technology. You could also be passing …
At Last, Some Hope for Preventing the Slow Mental Decline of Alzheimer’s
I’ve been waiting to write this week’s TIME Magazine cover story on Alzheimer’s disease for a long time. It’s been a while since there has been any significant progress in treating this stubborn degenerative brain disease.
FDA Goes After Popular Alternative Treatments for Autism and Alzheimer’s
For many desperate patients, over-the-counter chelation treatments used for conditions including autism, heart disease and Alzheimer’s disease, among others, offered hope for a cure. Now the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is …
Real-World Hoarders and Obsessive-Compulsives: A Conversation with an OCD Expert
When I called to interview Dr. Michael Jenike — one of the world’s leading experts on obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) — he noted that I’d reached him exactly on the dot, and joked that I might have a touch of OCD myself. …
October 15 Is National Latino AIDS Awareness Day
As Healthland previously reported, Latinos in America are longer lived than whites or blacks, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The bad news? Although Latinos comprise 14% of the national population, …
Now, With More Fiber! (And, P.S., Also With More Sugar to Cover It Up)
When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) teamed up with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to issue a report on October 13 calling for clearer nutritional information on food packages, their focus was largely on …
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First Comes Cancer, Then Come Children: The New World of Oncofertility
Cancer used to be an old people’s disease. No longer: we all have friends and colleagues — young people, in their 20s, 30s, 40s — who’ve been on the receiving end of a scary diagnosis. The good news is that a verdict of …
FDA Admits It Was Wrong to Approve a Knee Treatment
In an unprecedented move, the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) admitted Thursday that it had made a mistake in approving a medical device against the repeated objections of its own scientific reviewers. The agency announced it …