James Hamblin

James Hamblin, MD, is The Atlantic's Health editor.

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How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy

How All Millennials Think About Pregnancy

The modern birth announcement More »

The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's

The Michael J. Fox Show, Life With Parkinson's

Write a show about a family man with an incurable neurodegenerative condition, and make it funny and not manipulative. Okay, go. More »

Support for Same-Sex Marriage Has Doubled Since 1996

Support for Same-Sex Marriage Has Doubled Since 1996

53 percent of U.S. adults now favor marriage equality. More »

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey

Why Babies Shouldn't Suck on Honey

Possibilities include floppy baby syndrome and death, but honey-pacifiers still exist. More »

Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred

Caffeinated Gum: A Dream Deferred

Wrigley revoked caffeine-gum in response to FDA noise. Is this where it ends? More »

21 to Drink Coffee?

21 to Drink Coffee?

The U.S. FDA announced a plan to investigate and potentially regulate caffeine. More »

Study: Babies Like Watching Puppets Who Are Different From Them Get Hurt

Study: Babies Like Watching Puppets Who Are Different From Them Get Hurt

Nine and fourteen-month-olds prefer "individuals who treat similar others well and dissimilar others poorly." More »

What Does Sarin Do to People?

What Does Sarin Do to People?

The "nerve agent" does not directly kill. Rather, within seconds, it turns our own nervous systems against us. More »

Study: Meditation Improves Memory, Attention

Study: Meditation Improves Memory, Attention

Students who did about an hour of "mindfulness training" for eight days subsequently did better on the GRE as well as tests of working memory and mind-wandering. More »

Have You Ever Tried to Force-Feed a Captured Human?

Have You Ever Tried to Force-Feed a Captured Human?

U.S. Naval medics are forcing tubes down the noses of detainees at Guantánamo Bay in order to feed them against their will. The U.N. has said this violates international law. When does "suicide prevention" become torture? More »

Cannibalism in Jamestown: Colonists Ate a 14-Year-Old Girl's Brain

Cannibalism in Jamestown: Colonists Ate a 14-Year-Old Girl's Brain

Archaeologists announced today the "first solid evidence" that some 17th-century American colonists consumed one another. More »

Pediatricians on Home Births: Ugh, Fine

Pediatricians on Home Births: Ugh, Fine

The American Academy of Pediatrics said today that it respects the decision of women to give birth at home -- on the following conditions. More »

A Potential Way to Eat Eggs Without Dying

A Potential Way to Eat Eggs Without Dying

We learned this week that intestinal bacteria convert nutrients from egg yolks into a compound that correlates strongly with heart disease, stroke, and death. More »

The Most Stressful Places to Live

The Most Stressful Places to Live

41 percent of U.S. adults "feel stressed a lot of the day." Stats in some states are much worse than others. More »

How Deadly Is a Spoonful of Cinnamon?

How Deadly Is a Spoonful of Cinnamon?

Major medical journal takes on the eat-cinnamon-feel-terrible meme very late in the game; awareness and mystique of proscribed act heightened More »

Shiny Spots on a Brutal Week

Shiny Spots on a Brutal Week

Today the Boy Scouts of America "called to end" its ban on gay members. More »

Track of the Day: Florence and the Machine's New 'Great Gatsby' Song

Track of the Day: Florence and the Machine's New 'Great Gatsby' Song

Hear the soundtrack cut "Over the Love." More »

What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?

What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?

The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress. More »

A Desk Built for Sleep

A Desk Built for Sleep

Many titans of industry spend much of their lives asleep under their desks. More »

Study: Beer's Taste Alone Gets People a Little High

Study: Beer's Taste Alone Gets People a Little High

Our bodies anticipate the effects of beer, releasing euphoric signals even before alcohol gets into our blood. Hence, "It's so good, once it hits your lips, it's so good." More »

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