When people come out as transgender — especially if they choose to transition medically — one of the most common questions they face is how it affects whom they are attracted to and whom they love. The fact is—for many transgender people—it simply doesn’t. Norman Spack, associate professor of pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital, is quoted.
The potential of the internal gyroscopes, accelerometers, and GPS sensors in Apple’s mobile devices may help patients, doctors, and researchers track the progression of conditions like heart disease, Parkinson’s, and asthma. Stanley Shaw, assistant professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, is quoted.
David King, assistant professor of surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, participated in an interview about his experiences treating the wounded after running the Boston Marathon in 2013.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned five companies to stop selling dietary supplements containing an unapproved stimulant known as beta-methylphenylethylamine, or BMPEA. Pieter Cohen, assistant professor of medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance, is quoted.
Breakfast is an important meal for cultivating good health, but a handful of recent studies seem to be building a case for it ranking as perhaps the most critical meal for fifty- and sixty-something eaters, particularly when it comes to preventing and managing diabetes. Frank Scheer, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is quoted.
Mohammed Milad, associate professor of psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, is interviewed about his research on an intriguing hormone-based hypothesis that might help explain why so many more women suffer from fear and anxiety disorders than men.
Rumors of germline modification prove true — and look set to reignite an ethical debate. George Daley, professor of biological chemistry and molecular pharmacology at Children’s Hospital Boston, is quoted.
