Victoria Maizes: Taking integrative medicine mainstream
Andrew Weil is responsible for popularizing integrative medicine. He says Victoria Maizes is an up-and-coming pioneer in the field. Stacey Kalish | Jan/Feb 2009 issue Victoria Maizes, Executive director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. Tucson, Arizona Photo: Brendan Moore Members of Read More...
Flu fears
The panic over bird flu raises questions about public-health policies and conventional medical treatmentsTijn Touber | April 2006 issue Seven and a half million deaths. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), that could be the human toll resulting from the allegedly imminent outbreak of Read More...
Playing to win
Attorney Frederik Eijkman gave up a comfortable life in the Netherlands to help the poor in Kenya. The results surprised everyone Marco Visscher | November 2006 issue The story of Frederik Eijkman isn’t about Frederik Eijkman—not according to Frederik Eijkman anyway. He figures the story should Read More...
Maybe the best medicine isn't medicine
Water might be the simplest way to prevent many modern illnesses Tijn Touber | October 2006 issue In 1979, when the ayatollahs in Iran seized power from the shah, the Iranian doctor Fereydoon Batmanghelidj—like many other intellectuals—ended up in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. One Read More...
With Socrates on the sofa
Why the philosopher has as much to offer as the therapistJurriaan Kamp | December 2004 issue German philosopher Gerd Achenbach was concerned about the growing group of people who subjected themselves to endless analysis of their mental problems, which didn’t seem to make any difference. He Read More...