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Rethinking Healthcare
Janet Fang
Janet Fang
Janet Fang has written for Nature, Discover and the Point Reyes Light. She is currently a lab technician at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University. She is based in New York.
Janet Fang
Janet does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn
Audrey Quinn is a multimedia science journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. She has corresponded for PRI's The World, Radiolab, Deutsche Welle's Living Planet, and a number of NPR affiliate stations. She also produces and hosts a podcast for the Mind Science Foundation. Previously, she performed neuroscience research at the University of Washington Autism Center and the Seattle VA Hospital.
Audrey Quinn
Audrey does not have financial holdings that would influence how or what she covers.
She writes for SmartPlanet and is not an employee of CBS.
Archive: 04-2012
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How to make acupuncture a hundred times more effective
Scientists at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have co-opted traditional acupuncture techniques to provide longer term pain relief.
April 23, 2012, 10:09 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Brain implant restores movement in paralyzed monkeys
By stimulating electrodes in the brain and arm of two temporarily paralyzed monkeys, researchers were able to restore their ability to grasp and move a rubber ball around.
April 21, 2012, 1:01 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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iPhone app tracks cities’ eating habits: Copenhagen best and Philadelphia worst
The Eatery iPhone app keeps a photographic diary of your meals, providing personalized crowd-sourced eating assessments for you and an endless supply of food habit data for health statisticians.
April 19, 2012, 11:12 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Blood test to diagnose depression in teens
The new test offers an objective way to identify early-onset major depression, which has been hard to diagnose because of normal mood swings coming from healthy hormonal changes.
April 18, 2012, 3:23 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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“Food desert”: a lazy explanation for obesity in poorer neighborhoods
Poor urban neighborhoods actually have more supermarkets than wealthier areas, and food access doesn’t even correlate to child obesity. People in these neighborhoods are still unhealthy, but...
April 18, 2012, 1:18 PM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Doctors more likely to prescribe antidepressants to white people
Physicians are 1.52 times more likely to prescribe antidepressants to white people than Latino people.
April 17, 2012, 9:43 AM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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A single gene can affect your IQ and brain size
Using brain scans and DNA samples from over 20,000 people, an international team discovered 2 interesting genetic variants: one affects IQ and brain size, another affects memory.
April 16, 2012, 10:28 PM PDT | By Janet Fang
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The fastest-growing plastic surgery trend in America
Plastic surgeons saw a 71% increase in chin tucks between 2010 and 2011. And they say they have social media concerns to thanks for their boom in business.
April 16, 2012, 5:00 PM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Malaria vaccine from the teats of genetically altered goats
Texas A&M researchers see “pharm animals” as a less expensive way to produce millions of vaccines.
April 16, 2012, 12:15 PM PDT | By Audrey Quinn
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Memory trick relieves drug cravings in ex-addicts
By modifying memories of past drug use with a procedure called ‘extinction,’ scientists have a new way to help ex-heroin addicts avoid relapsing. And without the use of memory-blocking...
April 13, 2012, 8:36 PM PDT | By Janet Fang