BERKELEY, Calif. — Kamran Abri makes “tent calls” here in Berkeley, where the homeless live in doorways, on streets, under bushes, in parks, and in ramshackle villages under freeway offramps. An energetic young medical student with dark, penetrating eyes, Mr. Abri and a small team visited one such village at dusk last week. There were 20 or so tents sheltering 50 people, with cooking stoves, backpacks, plastic folding chairs and butane canisters strewn about. “If someone come

What is functional medicine? Inside the growing health trend. March 10, 2022. Functional medicine aims to understand the root causes of symptoms that people are having, and the health trend is steadily growing in popularity. NBC’s senior medical correspondent Dr. John Torres joins the 3rd Hour of TODAY to talk about how this approach differs from traditional medicine, as well as its most common treatments. Dr. Torres interviews functional health coach Palmer Kippola and Cynt

Cynthia Li was a successful doctor in her 30s when an autoimmune disease torpedoed her health. She and her doctors were baffled. Her test results were normal, but mysterious symptoms wracked her body. Li's memoir, Brave New Medicine: A Doctor's Unconventional Path to Healing Her Autoimmune Illness , follows her long journey to understanding her condition, rethinking the way medicine is practiced, and finding her way back to health. Michael: You were able to move in a differen