10,000 Steps A Day? It's More Complicated Than That
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How you walk may be more important than how much you walk.
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Understanding Monkeypox through the Lens of COVID
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We are living through two simultaneous pandemics.
Read MoreGene Therapy Gives Kids with SCID a Shot at a Normal Life
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Severe Combined Immunodifficency (SCID), or “bubble boy” syndrome, was once a death sentence. Gene therapy is changing that.
Read MoreA Tale of Two Coronaviruses
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The current data supports two interpretations of how coronavirus spreads. Determining which is correct is critical before society reopens.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Data Update: Checking Our Assumptions
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What we know now versus what we knew then.
Read MoreThe Real Problem with Goop: It's Deeper than You Think
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Herbs and supplements are unregulated, true, and stories of adverse effects abound. But the real problem with alternative medicine is that its business model depends on sowing mistrust in the scientific method itself.
Read MoreA Science Paper Gets It Wrong (IMHO)
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A study published in Science suggests that an early childhood intervention program can have lasting effects on adult health. If true, this is an incredibly worthy investment. But the data may not support the conclusions.
Read MoreAntidepressants in Mothers, Autism in Children: The Data
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This week, three studies were published that explore a potential link between antidepressant use during pregnancy and autism in offspring. In this deep dive, we explore the nuances of the data to determine just how worried moms-to-be should be. For the video version, click here.
Read More3D Printing and the Separation of Conjoined Twins: Doc-to-Doc with Oren Tepper, MD
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I had the opportunity to sit down with craniofacial surgeon Oren Tepper, best know for helping to separate conjoined twins Jadon and Anias McDonald to hear how he uses advanced technology in the OR to achieve impressive outcomes.
Read MoreThe Darkish Underbelly of Peer Review
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A research letter appearing in JAMA sheds light on an aspect of scientific peer-review that we often ignore. Reviewers are people too. For the video, click here.
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