CHICAGO – How long does it take to mourn the death of a loved one? The question is peculiar, even mildly offensive. Recovery from bereavemen…

MADRID – Our brains are like a dense forest – a complex, seemingly impenetrable terrain of interacting neurons that mediates cognition and b…

LEUVEN – We may not be fully aware of it, but future generations will likely consider our era truly historic. Never before has mankind been …

PHILADELPHIA – For a parent, there is perhaps no greater fear than the prospect of losing a child to illness or accident. And it is childhoo…

WASHINGTON, DC – Because information technology (IT) has so quickly transformed people’s daily lives, we tend to forget how much things have…

MELBOURNE – James Holmes, accused of opening fire in a crowded movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, last summer, had no criminal history, but …

LONDON – The harmful effects of medicines capture headlines worldwide. After all, horror stories about “killer drugs” are easy to sell. But,…

ZURICH – The outbreak of mad cow disease in the United Kingdom, which ultimately led to the slaughter of 3.7 million cows and severely damag…

BOSTON – One of today’s most contentious medical debates centers on cancer screening, the benefits of which seem anything but debatable. Ind…

Montreal – A recent symposium on evolution in Montreal posed to high-school students and university professors the following question: …

CAMBRIDGE, MA – The maxim “you are what you eat” has defined dietary thinking for hundreds of years. The prevailing interpretation is simple…

OXFORD – A few years ago, two Norwegian researchers presented their version of a scientific-research slippery slope, with honest errors (mis…

SAN FRANCISCO – Two seemingly benign nutritional maxims are at the root of all dietary evil: A calorie is a calorie, and You are what you ea…

PHILADELPHIA – It is difficult to communicate medical risk to a large audience, especially when official recommendations conflict with emoti…

TORONTO – With the United States Supreme Court set to begin considering the Affordable Care Act (the historic health-care reform derided by …

STANFORD – During the late 1990’s, a singular phenomenon appeared in countries around the world. One after another, food and beverage compan…

WELLINGTON – Albert Einstein is reputed to have said that “everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.” Yet the curren…

LONDON – The classic 1981 horror movie The Monster Club, starring Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, and John Carradine as monsters, included …

STANFORD – During the past several decades, treatment for a variety of conditions has begun to shift from a “one size fits all” approach to …

STANFORD – We are constantly bombarded with information about the purported risks or protective effects of one or another food, dietary supp…

WELLINGTON – The world is currently in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. A recent major study by Majid Ezzati and colleagues from Imperial Co…

STANFORD – Cancer is sometimes thought of as a disease of wealthier countries, but it is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in poorer …

SAN DIEGO – Not long ago, autism was among the rarest of disorders, afflicting only one child in every 2,000-5,000. This changed dramaticall…

LUND, SWEDEN – The Web site 88DB.com Philippines is an active online portal that allows service providers and consumers to find and interact…

LONDON – Does India need a new independence struggle? The fight this time would not be against British colonialism, but rather against the U…