Kent Sepkowitz is a physician in New York City who writes about medicine.
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Oct. 8 2013 11:47 PMDeadly DisbeliefThe myth that HIV does not cause AIDS seems to have claimed another victim.Kent Sepkowitz
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March 28 2012 6:00 AMThe End of IllnessA new book on proteomics, and how getting a dog can improve your health.Kent Sepkowitz
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Aug. 3 2011 10:04 AMThe Doctor and the PomegranateAntioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it. Kent Sepkowitz
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June 6 2011 4:47 PMWe Eat Crap. It Makes Us Sick.Our inability to talk about it is driving the hysteria around Europe's E. coli outbreak.Kent Sepkowitz
Doublex Health
May 20 2010 12:47 PMField of GenesThe wrongheaded approach to science in a New York Times writer's new book about marriage.Kent Sepkowitz
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July 7 2009 11:13 AMPaging Dr. FeelgoodThe joys and perils of giving celebrities what they want.Kent Sepkowitz
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Feb. 12 2009 6:53 AMGrowth IndustryMale-enhancement products that won't spice up your Valentine's Day.Kent Sepkowitz
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Sept. 30 2008 6:35 AMStill in the Lyme LightPoliticians and Hollywood enter the debate over "chronic Lyme disease."Kent Sepkowitz
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Nov. 28 2007 3:28 PMOperation Fear The creepy claim about anesthesia awareness in the new movie Awake.Kent Sepkowitz
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Sept. 10 2007 1:21 PMUnder the Influence?Drug companies, medical journals, and money.Kent Sepkowitz
Technology
March 22 2013 10:59 AMDoes Your Water Need More Ions?The latest health fad is even more ridiculous than most health fads.Kent Sepkowitz
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March 1 2012 12:54 PMSuperbugs!“Untreatable gonorrhea” joins the ranks of infectious bogeymen.Kent Sepkowitz
Doublex
June 15 2011 6:15 PMFinally, a Selfish Reason To Get Boys Vaccinated for HPVJust don't get distracted by all the oral sex talk.Kent Sepkowitz
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Sept. 9 2010 10:04 AMUnder PressureDon't listen to Tim Tebow: Hyperbaric oxygen chambers are mostly useless.Kent Sepkowitz
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April 7 2010 10:06 AMThat's a WrapThe case for bringing condoms to adult films.Kent Sepkowitz
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April 16 2009 6:58 AMAmerica's Clean TeamIf the Yankees' anti-microbial locker room is such a breakthrough, why aren't hospitals using it?Kent Sepkowitz
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Nov. 28 2008 7:05 AMDoctor, Doctor, Give Me ReviewsDon't even bother with Web-based doc-rating systems.Kent Sepkowitz
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Aug. 13 2008 12:36 PMAlternative UniverseThe homeopathic crowd meets academic medicine.Kent Sepkowitz
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March 17 2008 2:36 PMFor Teeth and for CountryJohn Adams' misplaced celebration of America's dental achievements.Kent Sepkowitz
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Oct. 9 2007 2:53 PMEat CrapWhy Americans should ingest more excrement.Kent Sepkowitz
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June 8 2007 1:45 PMConventional Wisdom?The excesses of the medical conference craze.Kent Sepkowitz