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We really didn’t need another study into the Placebo Effect, but it made the researchers feel better Nico Reznick   Years ago I saw a cartoon that showed two orderlies...

Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt was a Scottish meteorologist who developed a low-tech radar system to help forecast the weather. In 1935, he convinced the British government to use his far-from-perfect...

“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more so that we may fear less.” –Marie Curie On March...

This past Thursday, February 28th, I was honored to stand before some of the world’s greatest thinkers, industry game-changers, and leaders of innovation in the US Army, Navy, NASA, Ford,...

Gd is the chemical symbol for gadolinium, a rare metal that is commonly used during magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans and is approved by the FDA. Thirty million MRI scans...

I recently flew from Vienna to New York on Austrian Airlines. As sometimes happens after landing, a number of passengers were impatient and stood before the plane arrived at the...

Serendipity is understood to mean the fortuitous discovery of that which we didn’t set out to seek. Usually, we think of science as following well-defined logical processes and that new...

In light of the advances in knowledge and education wouldn’t we expect modern, sophisticated human beings to be more discerning and less naive than their forebears? Wouldn’t it be logical...

Some years ago, while helping a young man suffering from treatment-resistant colitis (inflammation of the large intestine) I came across several safe, little-known treatments using existing approved drugs that originally...

“Necessity may be the mother of invention, but curiosity is the mother of discovery.” –Charles Handy. “I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.” –Albert Einstein. Medicine faces...