Terry Rudd has covered clinical news and health policy as a reporter and editor since 1994.
News
Werewolves of Vallejo and a haunted-house doctor’s note
Plus, artificial intelligence is going where no human has gone before: scatological selfies.
News
Electrified pathogens and urbanized mosquitoes
Plus, the yeasty secret separating Belgium’s best brews from Bud Light.
News
America’s peas problem and freshly grated tattoos
Plus, why Dick Nixon never stood a chance in the 1960 political beauty pageant.
News
Printed meat in space and diesel-pattern baldness
Plus a failed anticancer agent might make a fine biotransistor.
News
Neanderthal otitis media and why you can’t chillax
Plus, why that diner salt shaker could soon resemble a pack of Marlboros.
News
Auto-brewery syndrome and hangovers as ‘illnesses’
Plus, why a shot of planfulness can really pump up your workouts.
News
Cancer with meatballs and the unkindest frozen cut
Plus, some deviant breast cancer cells have a taste for their fellow cells.
Video
VIDEO: Dr. Lihi Eder on the diagnostic challenges of psoriatic arthritis
Lihi Eder, MD, PhD, offers expert perspectives into the diagnostic challenges of psoriatic arthritis.
News
Texting a stroke, game-show grants, and, um, The Beast
And what medical residency’s long hours did to your telomeres.
News
Sleepless democracy, space herpes, and the F-bomb diet
And why you really, really do not want to lick surfaces on the International Space Station.
News
Transplanted food allergies, cavity-check hospital bills, and cancer-blocking houseplants
Plus, the perils of leaping from planes without looking at the scientific methodology.
News
Cute aggression, a soused super spy, and hospital holiday discharges
And why a real-world “Home Alone” would land the Wet Bandits in a level I trauma center.
News
Legos for lunch, saliva-sterilized pacifiers, and a healthy personality
And study subjects face a terrifying choice: snacks or your smartphone?
Opinion
Probative pee, Pilgrim obesity, and med school baked bribes
Plus, why your late-night tweets today may sink your stat line tomorrow.