Treatment
Scientists Find a New Way to Exploit and Attack Malaria
The stealthy parasite kills one million people a year; there may be a drug that can stop its deadly damage
September 2012 |
By Elizabeth Finkel
The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine
The question was not “Should you eat human flesh?” says one historian, but, “What sort of flesh should you eat?”
May 07, 2012 |
By Maria Dolan
Inside the ER at Mt. Everest
Dr. Luanne Freer, founder of the mountain’s emergency care center, sees hundreds of patients each climbing season at the foot of the Himalayas
June 01, 2011 |
By Molly Loomis
What Secrets Do Ancient Medical Texts Hold?
The Smithsonian's Alain Touwaide studies ancient books to identify medicines used thousands of years ago
May 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
A Triumph in the War Against Cancer
Oncologist Brian Druker developed a new treatment for a deadly cancer, leading to a breakthrough that has transformed medicine
May 2011 |
By Terence Monmaney
The Pathway Home Makes Inroads in Treating PTSD
An innovative California facility offers hope to combatants with post-traumatic stress disorder and brain injuries
September 2010 |
By Robert M. Poole
Listening to Bacteria
By studying microbial communications, Bonnie Bassler has come up with new ways to treat disease
August 2010 |
By Natalie Angier
Can Nanotechnology Save Lives?
Harvard professor and scientific genius George Whitesides believes that nanotechnology will change medicine as we know it
August 2010 |
By Michael Rosenwald
Painting With Penicillin: Alexander Fleming's Germ Art
The scientist created works of art using microbes, but did his artwork help lead him to his greatest discovery?
July 12, 2010 |
By Rob Dunn
Q and A with Barron Hall, Veterinary Dentist
Root canals on cheetahs, lions and gorillas is just another day at the office for veterinary dentist Barron Hall
May 2010 |
By Megan Gambino
Henrietta Lacks’ ‘Immortal’ Cells
Journalist Rebecca Skloot’s new book investigates how a poor black tobacco farmer had a groundbreaking impact on modern medicine
January 22, 2010 |
By Sarah Zielinski
High Hopes for a New Kind of Gene
Scientists believe that microRNA may lead to breakthroughs in diagnosing and treating cancer
July 2009 |
By Sylvia Pagán Westphal
Heaven Scent
A 600-year-old pharmacy started by Florentine monks is now a trendy global marketer of perfumes and medieval elixirs
February 2008 |
By Mishal Husain
Flu Fighter
With a possible pandemic in our future, immunologist John Wherry is racing to develop a once-a-lifetime vaccine
October 2007 |
By Arthur Allen
Can Mosquitoes Fight Malaria?
Scientists can build a mosquito that resists infection, but getting the insects to pass along the gene is a harder task
June 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
The Nic Fix
Put down your lighters and pick up your health care cards, nicotine vaccines are in the works
April 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
Doctor Feelgood
Stricken by "vile melancholy," the 18th-century critic and raconteur Samuel Johnson pioneered a modern therapy
January 2007 |
By John Geirland
Stem Cell Pioneers
Despite federal opposition to embryonic stem cell research, the promise of medical benefits, academic freedom and profits in California is luring scientists to the field
December 2005 |
By Jon Cohen
35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson
Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning
November 01, 2005 |
By Robin Marantz Henig
Conquering Polio
Fifty years ago, a scientific panel declared Jonas Salk's polio vaccine a smashing success. A new book takes readers behind the headlines
April 2005 |
By Jeffrey Kluger
