Other Science News

It is a requirement of the State of New York that every prescriber of medications takes a 3-hour course on opioid prescription and patient management.

Whole Foods is utterly shameless. I recently walked through one of the stores, found one calculated trick after another, and wrote about it.

Tuesday night marks the seventh straight NBA playoff game that Steve Kerr will miss due to debilitating back pain.

This new study's conclusion matches what most of us would logically take to be true – that as one's exposure to pornography increases, so do behavioral issues that are tied to sex.

I was thrilled to be included in the NewYorkBIO 2017 Annual Conference last week - at the Time Warner Center in Columbus Circle - to conduct a panel on the topic of science communication. (1) 

I just read the final charges and presentment made by the Grand Jury regarding the untimely death of Penn State college student, Timothy

Astrophysicist and science communicator Neil deGrasse Tyson appeared recently on Conan O'Brien's show. As usual, he was engaging, charismatic, amusing... and full of nonsense.

When a company fires several board members, things are not going well. That's what Whole Foods just did.

The sequoia, the tallest and longest-living tree on Earth, is a wonder of creation. With its massive trunk and staggering verticality, it's difficult not to be awed while in its presence.

I have written before about attributing care to individual physicians who lead a ‘team’ rather than to all of the team members.