Health News and Articles

• A doctor's touch - Abraham Verghese
• A ketogenic diet for diabetes and kidney failure? - PBS
• A new way to attack malaria - Elizabeth Finkel
• A pill that manufactures drugs - ACS
• Body shock: The electricity inside your body - Philip Ball
• Coconut oil could combat tooth decay - BBC
• Confessions of a hypochondriac - Alexander Nazaryan
• Conversations between doctor and patient - Rebecca Dresser
• Experts warn of heart risk for low-carb/high protein diets - BMJ
• Generation HIV: Growing up under a shadow of infection - Madhumita Venkataramanan
• Hospitals receive radical surgery - Rowan Philp
• How looking to animals can improve human medicine - Megan Gambino
• 'Hurtful and beautiful': Life with multiple sclerosis - Alice G Walton
• Improving medicine by looking at animals - Megan Gambino
• Is a cure for the common cold on the way? - Stephanie Hegarty
• Microbiome: How bugs may be crucial to your health - Karen Weintraub
• Miracle drugs: Sometimes not so miraculous - Megan McArdle
• Namibian doctor brings gift of sight - Diane McCarthy
• Paper-based diagnostic tests - Philip Ball
• Remote-controlled protein factories - Philip Ball
• Sampling white blood cells to helps diagnose disease - Gene Ostrovsky
• Sitting straight 'bad for backs'? - BBC
• The best health stats you've ever seen - Hans Rosling
• The flu is a frequent traveler - Chris McGinnis
• The global diabetes epidemic - Neal Emery
• The health benefits of sharks - James Hamblin
• The physician burnout epidemic - Elaine Schattner
• Vitamin D supplements may protect from colds - Lindsay Abrams
• Will wet hair give you a cold? - Claudia Hammond
• X-rays and iPads: The network healthcare evolution - Sean Gallagher
• 87-year old doctor charges $5 a visit - First Person

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• Could there be a pill to cure senior moments? - Alex Knapp
• Doctors love the iPad - Tom Gillis
• Eight glasses of water a day? - Rebecca Greenfield
• Habits to improve your health - Sara Altshul
• Is the world getting healthier? - Rebecca Greenfield
• LifeLens: A smartphone app that can detect malaria - Courtney Boyd Myers
• New resuscitation strategies after cardiac arrest fail - Larry Husten
• Smart mattress automatically shifts bedfast patients - Elizabeth Moore
• The doctor and the pomegranate - Kent Sepkowitz
• The family physician of the future - Reid Blackwelder
• The future of medicine - John Timmer
• The first CAT scan - Randy Alfred
• The rise of superbugs - Frances Beinecke
• Walked into a lamppost? Help is on the way - Anna Wilde Mathews
• Ways to strengthen your immune system - Christopher Woolston