In the face of a spiraling opioid epidemic, alternatives for addressing chronic pain are essential. Taking a placebo may turn out to be just the prescription we need. Neuroscientists have discovered that a pill with no pharmaceutically active ingredients can reduce responses in the brain’s pain...

As health care systems change, public agencies and professional organizations are increasingly saying that physicians need not be the sole purveyors of primary care – and indeed, that supply shortages dictate they can not be. A wider use of physician assistants and advanced practice nurses,...

It doesn’t seem to matter how many diet books get published or how much consumer-friendly advice is offered on the talk shows – we still don’t seem to grasp what makes us overweight and what we can do about it. Rather, several myths dominate our thinking and we are perennially asking the same...