Aluminum Foiled

Aluminum Foiled

Suspicious of your pots and pans? Wary of your antiperspirant? Since the 1960s, when a few studies pointed to aluminum as a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease, the ubiquitous element got a villainous reputation it couldn’t shake—no matter how many later studies...
ALS in the Strike Zone

ALS in the Strike Zone

It is a devastating neurological disease that takes the body hostage and then methodically destroys it while the mind stays painfully alert. Lou Gehrig’s disease is still incurable and largely untreatable, but a stream of recent scientific breakthroughs in genetics,...
The Art of Medicine

The Art of Medicine

Good medicine lives at the intersection of art and science. Some five hundred years after its creation, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man” remains one of civilization’s most admired works of art and medical touchstones; we marvel at its geometrical elegance. The...