Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
Today begins phase 1 of the holiday season, with eating, eating, and more eating. Then comes phase 2, on January 2. Hordes of the sedentary suddenly swarm exercise classes and take over the treadmills. Diets
We tend to think of fat as the enemy when it bulges over our waistlines. But fats are essential to survival. We need cholesterol to make sex hormones, fatty acids to assemble into the membranes
Anthony Weiner and Woody Allen have the same favorite organ; mine is the placenta. The amazing placenta literally links generations, and if findings reported in the new Science Translational Medicine are validated, prenatal genetic screening and