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Joel Bervell was one of the only Black students in his medical school program. After noticing how misconceptions about race were embedded in health care, he...
Quantum computers obtain superpowers by tapping into parallel universes, says Hartmut Neven, the founder and lead of Google Quantum AI. He explains how this emerging tech...
It’s time to make psychiatry more psychedelic, says psychiatrist Benjamin Lewis. Sharing results from his clinical trial on psychedelic-assisted therapy, he highlights how group therapy paired...
Would you swallow a micro-robot? In a gutsy demo, physician Vivek Kumbhari navigates Pillbot, a wireless, disposable robot swallowed onstage by engineer Alex Luebke, modeling how...
Miracle cures and quack medicine crashed into a new era of science during the dawn of Radionics. While history is rife with fake medicine and medical...
Biomedical researcher Sonia Vallabh’s life was turned upside down when she learned she had the genetic mutation for a rare and fatal illness, prion disease, that...
When Everett Knowles hitched a ride on a Boston train, he expected to make it home in a few minutes. But the result was the final...
Organ transplants save lives, but they come with challenges: every minute a healthy donated organ is on ice increases risk. And even if things go perfectly,...
Catching cancer at its earliest stages saves lives. But in a body made up of trillions of cells, how do you spot a small group of...
Have we lost the practical wisdom of what happens as people die? With lessons from a career witnessing thousands of people’s final breaths, palliative care expert...
