NFL wives speak out. Are their husbands suffering brain damage from playing in the National Football League?
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Comments [34]Lizzie Gottlieb’s brother Nicky was never like most other kids. Very smart, but talked late, walked late, didn’t make eye contact, didn’t socially connect.
It wasn’t until he was 20 that Nicky was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, a kind of high-functioning neurological cousin of autism that is being diagnosed in more and more young Americans.
They can [...]
Six weeks ago today was a big day for me. I’d had a little tightness in the chest, a little trip to the doctor. And six weeks ago they threw me on a hospital gurney, slapped on the oxygen mask, and cut my chest open for heart bypass surgery.
I was lucky. No heart attack. No [...]
Nobody’s perfect, but perfectionism is a virtue — right? Great athletes, star CEOs, and Nobel laureates embody it. But where does the perfectionist tendency lead? Great success for some — but then there are the crazy bosses, pushy parents, and high-striving students on the edge of a breakdown.
New research on perfectionism reveals that the urge [...]
It sounds like a sci-fi nightmare: scientists bring back to life ancient deadly viruses that once wiped out vast numbers of the human race for research purposes only, of course. And where do they go to find those extinct diseases? Deep within our own genome.
Long ago, some of the viruses that didn’t kill us got [...]
For decades, breast cancer was seen as an affliction of affluent women in the industrialized West. And heaven knows it is that. In the U.S., one in eight women will be diagnosed with breast cancer.
But the world’s most lethal form of cancer for women is not bound by borders these days. From South America to [...]
Nobel prize-winner James Watson, of “Watson & Crick” fame, of DNA and the epic discovery of DNA’s double helix structure, carries one of the most storied names in modern science. Right up there with Einstein, Robert Oppenheimer, and Marie Curie.
His pioneering work broke open the great age of genetic science we live in now. He’s [...]
The Christmas Revels invade our studio for old Wessex carols, a Somerset Wassail, and Thomas Hardy’s “Under the Greenwood Tree.”
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Theologian Martin Marty and physician Jerome Groopman join us for a conversation about hope in turbulent times — where we find it, and how we hold on.
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A new look at frontier medicine, and the wildest tonics of the old Wild West.
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Caroline Kennedy reaches for Hillary Clinton’s Senate seat. We look at the politics, the history, at Caroline, and the national mythology, all in play.
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