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A Brief History of Antidepressants
A new study in JAMA suggests that antidepressants provide relief for people with severe depression but do little for people with mild to moderate depression. Here's a history of the drugs, which have...
View ArticleDo air marshals really help?
Three days after the attempted Christmas bombing of Northwest Flight 253, President Obama announced that federal air marshals would ride shotgun on more flights to and from the U.S. Armed, highly...
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A brief history of anabolic steroids
Mark McGwire's admission to using steroids isn't exactly surprising. But it was news to me that Adolf Hitler may have been among the first people to juice. I wrote about the history of steroids here.
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Why women can scrap those health rules
If you've ever gotten so tangled in conflicting women's health advice that you've felt the urge to give up on the crazy rules altogether, take heart. The authors of the new book Live a Little! say you...
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How has New York fared in the Great Recession?
We took a look this week at how the world's financial capitals are faring in the Great Recession. Here's my piece on New York; I was surprised to find that the state of the city isn't as bad as the...
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What happens to the Haiti relief money?
Millions are pouring in from around the world to aid survivors of the Haiti quake. What happens when it gets there?
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Study: Hepatitis threat underestimated
A new Institute of Medicine report this month finds that hepatitis -- which affects 3 to 5 times as many Americans as HIV/AIDS but receives a fraction of the funding and attention -- is a "major"...
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The Asian Carp are Coming!!
Not since jaws has a piscine predator caused such a commotion. Inspired by the Asian carp threatening the Great Lakes fishing industry, for this week's magazine I wrote a brief history of invasive...
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The death penalty: racist, classist and unfair?
I have an interview up today with David Dow, an appellate lawyer in Texas whose new book, The Autobiography of an Execution, covers his two decades of defending more than 100 death-row inmates. We...
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How Trust Creates Wealth
I chatted with the interesting Anna Bernasek about her new book, The Economics of Integrity, and how trust is one of the most valuable economic assets we have. She argues that too often we labor under...
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The New Sexism
The blatant sexism of eras past, author Susan Douglas argues in our interview up today (available here), has been supplanted by a more insidious form of bias, which suggests that sexist messages are...
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Why do Americans eat so much salt?
Pepsi's plans for "designer salt" that preserves taste while slashing sodium content are intended to combat a growing public-health problem: Americans consume about twice as much salt as our bodies...
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Q&A: The Male Brain
Despite all that old talk about Mars and Venus, men and women are much more biologically alike than not. But differences in the way our brains are built shed light on everything from the way we flirt,...
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Which U.S. Presidents Have Appointed the most Supreme Court Justices?
Once Obama's nominee to succeed Justice Stevens is confirmed (whoever that nominee turns out to be), the President will have seated as many Justices as any first-termer since Richard Nixon, who pushed...
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Why Do Women Still Earn Less Than Men?
On Equal Pay Day--an advocacy day intended to raise awareness of the fact that American women still earn 77 cents on the male dollar--my Time.com story explores reasons for the persistent gap. One...
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Best in Show: Jane Lynch
I missed this week's Madonna episode, but I'm nonetheless psyched Glee has returned from its 4-month hiatus. To mark the occasion, I sat down with Jane Lynch, who plays the show's deliciously evil...
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A Brief History of YouTube
YouTube turns five this month. It's changed a lot since its simple beginnings in an office above a California pizza joint. Click here for a brief history of YouTube.
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How we fail our female vets
My latest piece, from the 7/12 issue, is about the VA hospital system's struggle to accommodate growing numbers of female veterans. Read it here.
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Study: Exercise Can Counteract Obesity Genes
Some families, alas, are fatter than others. But for dieters continually at war with their genes, there's good news in a study published in this week's PLoS Medicine: they can burn off 40% of their...
View ArticleWorth a read: the doctor-patient relationship
Now that I'm back in school doing my prerequisites for medical school, I'm more interested than ever in health news, particularly when it comes to the way physicians interact with the people they...
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Shock and Awe: Dispatches from Med School
I've just started medical school and will be chronicling my experiences in a series of "Doctor in Training" essays on TIME's Healthland blog. You can read the first installment here. An excerpt:My very...
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Anatomy Lesson
I skinned a man. Strange as it sounds, it felt more natural than I expected.Fresh off winter break, we first-year medical students were slated for our first two days in the anatomy lab: Thursday would...
View ArticleAnatomy memorial service
A nice piece about the memorial service we held to honor the people who so generously donated their bodies to further our medical educations: http://weill.cornell.edu/news/deans/2013/04_26_13.shtml
View ArticleThe Paradox of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
I watched a birth. More than watched: an hour or so after first meeting the mom-to-be as she lay in her bed in a hospital gown, I was helping her push. I was the one who retrieved her glasses so that...
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