Illness

Studying splashes to learn more about how disease spreads

April 14, 2017Health

In the new Science Friday video “Breakthrough: Connecting the Drops,” Lydia Bourouiba and her team study how droplets travel when we sneeze, or flush the toilet.

Modern-day tribes still carry traces of colonial devastation in their DNA

December 4, 2016Health

Global mental health issues woefully overlooked

August 10, 2016Health & Medicine

A Psychiatrist’s Encounters with the Mind in Crisis

September 17, 2013

Changing the way the world goes mad

August 15, 2013Health & Medicine

Mental Health Not Getting Enough Attention From UN

August 15, 2013Global Politics

Mental health advocates are upset that the UN is not focusing attention on mental health.

Chemical Culprit, Chemical Cure? Challenging Conventional Wisdom on Mental Illness

August 15, 2013

For almost 40 years, conventional wisdom has been that mental illness is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain. “Serotonin” is a household word, along with Prozac, Zyprexa, and Zoloft. But recently, there’s been a vigorous debate within the medical community over whether that line of thinking is accurate. This summer Marcia Angell, a […]

The Health Legacy of Ground Zero

August 14, 2013

The latest medical research indicates that seventy percent of rescue and recovery workers at Ground Zero suffer serious respiratory illnesses as a result of their exposure to toxic air at the site. The researchers say many will suffer for the rest of thei