When sports medicine physicians need another set of eyes to diagnose an elusive condition, like a stress fracture or a neuropathy, medical imaging can help confirm or rule-out a diagnosis. The next two issues of Clinics in Sports Medicine are dedicated to Imaging - Upper and Lower Extremities - respectively. Tim Sanders, MD examines...

The brain, more complex than any computer that has ever been invented, is a unique and special organ: It is what makes us human. The science of the brain—neuroscience—has emerged as one of the most exciting fields of research and now occupies a central role as a substrate for clinical medicine. At the heart of...

The Socratic, or dialog, form is central to the history of philosophy and has been the discipline's canonical genre ever since. Paul Feyerabend's Three Dialogues on Knowledge resurrects the form to provide an astonishingly flexible and invigorating analysis of epistemological, ethical and metaphysical problems. He uses literary...

The history and evolution of the fields of science and medicine are symbiotically linked and thus are mutually dependent. Discoveries in one domain have allowed for progress in the other, and it is nearly impossible to study one area in isolation. The influence of science and technologic discoveries on medicine has profoundly impacted the way...

As a pediatrician and as a result of my recent service on the Committee on Nutrition of the American Academy of Pediatrics, I have become very concerned about the rising obesity epidemic among children and adolescents in the United States. In the last several decades, declining physical activity both at...