by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Robin Lindley’s in-depth interview with British historian Joanna Bourke covers the history, language, and personal experience of pain. Professor Bourke’s book, The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers is the starting point for the conversation but the exchange...
by Chris Tachibana | May 2, 2015 | ScienceWire
Sally James, at HealthNewsReview.org, gives a rundown of the social media response to “The Emperor of All Maladies,” a Ken Burns documentary about cancer. What do physicians, patients, and researchers say about the film, which is based on the best-selling 2010 book by...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Kevin Bailey, writing in Earth Island Journal, has good news for conscientious consumers. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch has a long list of unsustainable shellfish choices—except for abalone from a California aquaculture company. Abalone cultivation isn’t...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Honeybee colony collapse, Sylvia Kantor @kantors discovers, might be halted by mycologists as well as entomologists. In a story for Crosscut, Sylvia talks with a mushroom expert and a Washington State University bee researcher who are finding compounds from mushrooms,...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
Sandra Ripley Distelhorst has a first-author Lancet Oncology paper on optimizing breast cancer care in low- and middle-income countries. The comprehensive summary lays out the latest recommendations from the Breast Health Global Initiative, co-sponsored by Fred...
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
The European Union, says Kris Freeman, wants its members to join together in harmony, at least when sharing health data. In Environmental Health Perspectives, Kris writes that data from 17 countries can be combined to study exposure patterns to compounds such as...
