Pointing the way to longer life
Researchers seek predictors that show up years before illness, but ethical questions arise on health strategy
Can our bodies, healthy and diseasefree, tell us how we will die? Emory doctors believe they can. The Atlanta university has launched a $50 million research initiative in "predictive" medicine that it hopes will fundamentally change the nation's struggling health care system. Full Story
Eight ways to eat Eight Most of us have heard government recommendations to eat eight servings of vegetables per day. Actually, eight is a conservative number, because they recommend that men eat twelve (yes, 12) servings of vegetables per day, believing that vegetables are that important to health. Full Story