In diagnosing and treating his 700 severely ill Amish and Mennonite patients, Holmes Morton is doing what few doctors do, acting as both genetic researcher and pediatrician and creating a model for the medicine of tomorrow.
A debilitating and often deadly disease meningitis remains common in many developing countries. New insights may soon enable us to predict and control outbreaks.
A new model of this reading disorder emphasizes defects in the language-processing rather than the visual system. It explains why some very smart people have trouble learning to read.
The search for biological underpinnings of depression is intensifying. Emerging findings promise to yield better therapies for a disorder that too often proves fatal.