10+ Best Articles on Medicine
The most useful articles on medicine from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Medicine Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on medicine by Refind users.
- Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality
- How ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
- These Engineered Cells Are Super Soldiers That Hunt Down Cancers
- Biotech labs are using AI inspired by DALL-E to invent new drugs
- Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine
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The entrepreneur dreaming of a factory of unlimited organs
Martine Rothblatt sees a day when transplantable organs and 3D-printed ones will be readily available, saving countless lives—including her daughter’s.
DARPA Wants to Find a Drug That Makes You Impervious to Cold
The agency is funding research projects to find ways to boost people's resilience to extreme cold.
The ‘breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers
A class of drugs that quash hunger have shown striking results in trials and in practice. But can they help all people with obesity — and conquer weight stigma?
FDA no longer needs to require animal tests before human drug trials
New law welcomed by animal welfare groups, but others say change won’t happen fast
Colonoscopies save lives. Why did a trial suggest they might not?
A major clinical study raised questions about one of the most celebrated cancer-screening procedures available, but a close look at the data tells a different story.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on medicine—all under 10 minutes.
These Engineered Cells Are Super Soldiers That Hunt Down Cancers
A new therapy combines two big advances, CRISPR and CAR-T, to create personalized immune cells that seek and destroy specific cancers.
Biotech labs are using AI inspired by DALL-E to invent new drugs
Two groups have announced powerful new generative models that can design new proteins on demand not seen in nature.
Alzheimer's drug lecanemab hailed as momentous breakthrough
Lecanemab is the first drug to remove damage, but there are questions around its impact, side effects and use.
New 'Cellular Glue' Concept Could Heal Wounds, Regrow Nerves
One day, these synthetic molecules could also help mitigate the organ shortage crisis.
Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of futurists hoping for immortality
Cryonics is the practice of freezing your body in the hope of resurrection by future medicine. Some pioneers met a fate grislier than death.
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on medicine.
Neither Chaos Nor Quest: Toward a Nonnarrative Medicine
Narrative medicine claims to champion the experience of patients—but it does so by requiring that the sick “earn” their care by telling a redemptive tale about what is wrong with them.
How Intracellular Bacteria Hijack Your Cells
Scientists studying pathogens such as Chlamydia, Legionella, and Listeria get a master class in how to control the internal workings of mammalian cells.
Can medicine help those with multiple chemical sensitivity?
People with multiple chemical sensitivity seem to be allergic to the world. What, if anything, can medicine do for them?
How ecstasy and psilocybin are shaking up psychiatry
Regulators will soon grapple with how to safely administer powerful psychedelics for treating depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
AI in health and medicine
AI has the potential to reshape medicine and make healthcare more accurate, efficient and accessible; this Review discusses recent progress, opportunities and challenges toward achieving this goal.
Publications
We monitor hundreds of publications, blogs, newsletters, and news sources in Medicine, including:
Singularity Hub
Chronicling technological progress in AI, robotics, health, & exponential tech. By @singularityu.
MIT Technology Review
Our in-depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s really happening now to help you know what’s coming next. http://technologyreview.com/newsletters
NEJM
The New England Journal of Medicine (http://NEJM.org) is the world’s leading medical journal and website.
Big Think
Learn from the world’s greatest thinkers. Join us on https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink.
Nautilus Magazine
Experience science, don't just read about it. Deep, undiluted, narrative storytelling brings science into the most important conversations we are having today.
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