Mixed Topics
News
Raise a glass to speed up the brain’s aging process
Plus: CVS goes meta, Usain Bolt goes fast, and oocyte aging goes backward.
News
Tastier chocolate may be healthier chocolate
Plus: A villain in milk, low-tech radiation detection, and in-head localization.
News
Your heart doesn’t like peas any more than you do
Plus: Digging up an ear-surgery patient and tuning in to musical dislike.
Feature
When your medical error harmed a patient and you’re wracked with guilt
Some, unable to come to terms with the trauma, may move to another institution or leave medicine entirely. Others learn to cope.
News
Tiny hitchhikers like to ride in the trunk
Flushing fireworks, MRI metamaterials, and the architecture of intelligence.
Guidelines
CDC releases updated draft guidance on opioid prescribing
The CDC has released an updated draft of its 2016 Clinical Practice Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids and is soliciting public comment before it...
News
If you’ve got 3 seconds, then you’ve got time to work out
Plus: Golf’s newest birdie, an online community that tingles, and procrastinating brains.
From the Journals
Motor function restored in three men after complete paralysis from spinal cord injury
A system developed specifically for spinal cord injuries enabled three men with complete paralysis to stand, walk, cycle, swim, and move their...
Commentary
Should we always offer CPR?
We need to have the humility to accept that death is inevitable.
Latest News
Pandemic weighing on physicians’ happiness outside of work: survey
Work-life balance is an important, if elusive, goal for physicians, and not just females.
From the Journals
Appendectomy or antibiotics? Large trial helps decision-making
The surprise was the lack of an association between appendectomy and factors often presumed to be consistent with more severe appendicitis.