Department Index
Medical Examiner 2009:
Health and medicine explained.
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- Farrah's Fictions What stories like Fawcett's can teach us about cancer.
June 26, 2009 - Tax Breaks Under the Microscope Should nonprofit hospitals be forced to stop behaving like greedy corporations?
June 19, 2009 - Health Care Scare How to avoid medical mistakes.
June 3, 2009 - Sweet Justice Why Judge Sotomayor's diabetes shouldn't be ignored.
May 29, 2009 - WHO and the Flu The problems with the World Health Organization's approach to pandemics like swine flu.
May 14, 2009 - Influenza Body Count The math behind estimating seasonal flu deaths.
May 14, 2009 - When the Lights Go Out What can reality TV teach us about clinical drug trials?
May 13, 2009 - Say It Ain't So, O Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy?
May 6, 2009 - What Happened to Avian Flu? It never really went away. We just forgot about it.
April 28, 2009 - Swine Flu and the Mexico Mystery Why does the swine flu seem to be more deadly in Mexico?
April 27, 2009 - Gather 'Round the Cadaver A new book examines photographs of medical students posing with the bodies they dissected.
April 24, 2009 - State of Mind New research may help unlock vegetative and minimally conscious patients.
April 23, 2009 - America's Clean Team If the Yankees' anti-microbial locker room is such a breakthrough, why aren't hospitals using it?
April 16, 2009 - Treating Autism as if Vaccines Caused It The theory may be dead, but the treatments live on.
April 1, 2009 - The Hawthorne Effect Why parents swear by ineffective treatments for autism.
April 1, 2009 - Diabetes of the Brain Is Alzheimer's disease actually a form of diabetes?
March 16, 2009 - Drug Dealing Who should decide when a medication is safe?
March 11, 2009 - Sniffle While You Work Why doctors go to work sick.
March 6, 2009 - Pregnant Pause Who should pay for in vitro fertilization?
Feb. 13, 2009 - In Your Eye, Jenny McCarthy A special court rejects autism-vaccine theories.
Feb. 12, 2009 - Growth Industry Male-enhancement products that won't spice up your Valentine's Day.
Feb. 9, 2009 - Dying To Play Why don't we prevent more sudden deaths in athletes?
Feb. 3, 2009 - Sicko-nomics Health care reformers should look to the banking collapse as a cautionary tale.
Jan. 27, 2009 - Steve Jobs and Me A layman's guide to islet-cell tumors in the pancreas.
Jan. 21, 2009 - Let the TB Patients Go Prisonlike hospitals aren't the place to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
Jan. 13, 2009 - The Not-So-Loony Bin Voluntary Madness doesn't have a new prescription for psychiatric treatment.
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