The drug of the week is Zetia—another tale of a good drug potentially gone bad. Zetia lowers bad cholesterol (LDL) by preventing it from being "recycled" in the intestines. This is different from the more commonly used "statins" that prevent bad ...
It's once again time for New Year's resolutions—the time of year when we solemnly vow to eat right, exercise, save more than we spend, and be nicer to the people around us (at least for a few days). Fortunately, the editors at the Journal of the ...
A few years ago, I was taking care of a woman who developed diabetes during her pregnancy. Changes in her diet were not working, and I was getting ready to have the dreaded "you might need insulin" talk. Instead, she asked me if she could try taking ...
Having a child changes a woman's life in the biggest ways possible. It also seems to have the potential to change the mother in a tiny but very important way. When a woman is pregnant, cells from the developing fetus often enter the ...
When you get right down to it—and by "right down to it," I mean at the DNA level—we are far more like one another than most of us would care to admit. It is estimated that we are 99 percent genetically identical, with that varying 1 percent causing ...
If you had to pick the one medical discovery that has saved the most lives, antibiotics would certainly be on the short list. Each new antibiotic that emerges is another wonder drug that seems to kill everything in sight. But an antibiotic is not ...
Conventional wisdom about the sexes—and most movies marketed to men under 24—work from the premise that men’s and women’s brains are just fundamentally different. The medical spin on this has been that testosterone, in addition to providing extra oomph ...
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