Medicine

A collaborative story-telling process documents one couples’ experiences with infertility and the amazing ways in which modern families are made.

What we do to our environment, and to our food, in the name of progress and efficiency may be affecting the health of the population in unforeseen ways.

The idea that this career will desensitize me to grief and illness and death and dying terrifies me.

How superbugs have taken the lead, and how humans can take it back

In my work on rare diseases, I once met a young woman with an as-yet unnamed genetic disorder. She told me that, on Facebook, she had recently befriended someone living on the other side of the globe who had...

The spread of Ebola is unsettling to many Americans, yet to date the U.S. FDA and the EMA (the FDA’s European counterpart) have not approved any medicines or vaccines to treat a potential global outbreak. In October 2014, both agencies released guidelines for companies to get accelerated approval for potential Ebola treatments; such emergency responses are unprecedented. Why did the FDA and EMA make these rules in the case of Ebola and how will they change the course of drug approval? Harvard University chemist Li Zha explains.

As a medical student, I'm perpetually absorbing knowledge taught to me...What all of these teachings share is a certainty that there are problems, and that medical students can learn – through lectures and textbooks and research – how to fix them. I'm still not clear why we're making the attribution of one thing as a problem, and another as the solution.