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• It's So Hard To Say I'm Sorry The financial and personal ramifications that come when a doctor apologizes to a patient.
  Rahul Parikh Nov. 6, 2009
  
• Blowing the Shot What we can learn from the shortage of H1N1 vaccine.
  Marc Siegel Nov. 2, 2009
  
• A Pox on You My son has cancer. He can't go into day care because of unvaccinated children.
  Stephanie Tatel Oct. 20, 2009
  
• Sniffing Out Swine Flu Researchers hope to create a better way to diagnose swine flu and other ailments.
  Amanda Schaffer Oct. 7, 2009
  
• To Boost or Not To Boost The United States' swine flu vaccines will leave millions worldwide unprotected.
  David Dobbs Sept. 17, 2009
  
• Listening to the Black Box Did the FDA's warnings on antidepressants have any effect on teen suicide?
  Arthur Allen Sept. 15, 2009
  
• Head Case Trying to decide whether to have brain surgery.
  Peter Hyman Sept. 14, 2009
  
• Nuts to That The people profiting from food allergies.
  Meredith Broussard Aug. 31, 2009
  
• Live From the O.R. The problems with broadcasting surgeries as they happen.
  Adam Wolfberg Aug. 18, 2009
  
• The Best Birth Control Why more young women should start using IUDs.
  Kate Klonick July 29, 2009
  
• Bitterness, Compulsive Shopping, and Internet Addiction The diagnostic madness of DSM-V.
  Christopher Lane July 24, 2009
  
• Amanda Schaffer's Archive Slate's and Double X's complete bibliography of Amanda Schaffer articles.
  July 21, 2009
  
• Cabin Fever Trying to stop the spread of swine flu at summer camp.
  Marc Siegel July 10, 2009
  
• Paging Dr. Feelgood The joys and perils of giving celebrities what they want.
  Kent Sepkowitz  July 7, 2009
  
• Farrah's Fictions What stories like Fawcett's can teach us about cancer.
  Barron H. Lerner June 26, 2009
  
• Tax Breaks Under the Microscope Should nonprofit hospitals be forced to stop behaving like greedy corporations?
  Jesse M. Pines June 19, 2009
  
• Health Care Scare How to avoid medical mistakes.
  Jesse M. Pines June 3, 2009
  
• Sweet Justice Why Judge Sotomayor's diabetes shouldn't be ignored.
  Darshak Sanghavi May 29, 2009
  
• WHO and the Flu The problems with the World Health Organization's approach to pandemics like swine flu.
  Marc Siegel May 14, 2009
  
• Influenza Body Count The math behind estimating seasonal flu deaths.
  Jordan Ellenberg May 14, 2009
  
• When the Lights Go Out What can reality TV teach us about clinical drug trials?
  Darshak Sanghavi May 13, 2009
  
• Say It Ain't So, O Why is Oprah Winfrey promoting vaccine skeptic Jenny McCarthy?
  Arthur Allen May 6, 2009
  
• What Happened to Avian Flu? It never really went away. We just forgot about it.
  Sydney Spiesel April 28, 2009
  
• Swine Flu and the Mexico Mystery    Why does the swine flu seem to be more deadly in Mexico?
  David Dobbs April 27, 2009
  
• Gather 'Round the Cadaver A new book examines photographs of medical students posing with the bodies they dissected.
  Barron H. Lerner April 24, 2009
  
• State of Mind New research may help unlock vegetative and minimally conscious patients.
  Ford Vox April 23, 2009
  
• America's Clean Team If the Yankees' anti-microbial locker room is such a breakthrough, why aren't hospitals using it?
  Kent Sepkowitz  April 16, 2009
  
• Treating Autism as if Vaccines Caused It The theory may be dead, but the treatments live on.
  Arthur Allen April 1, 2009
  
• The Hawthorne Effect Why parents swear by ineffective treatments for autism.
  Sydney Spiesel April 1, 2009
  
• Diabetes of the Brain Is Alzheimer's disease actually a form of diabetes?
  Amanda Schaffer March 16, 2009
  
• Drug Dealing Who should decide when a medication is safe?
  Darshak Sanghavi March 11, 2009
  
• Sniffle While You Work Why doctors go to work sick.
  Jesse M. Pines March 6, 2009
  
• Pregnant Pause Who should pay for in vitro fertilization?
  Darshak Sanghavi Feb. 13, 2009
  
• In Your Eye, Jenny McCarthy A special court rejects autism-vaccine theories.
  Arthur Allen Feb. 12, 2009
  
• Growth Industry Male-enhancement products that won't spice up your Valentine's Day.
  Kent Sepkowitz  Feb. 9, 2009
  
• Dying To Play Why don't we prevent more sudden deaths in athletes?
  Darshak Sanghavi Feb. 3, 2009
  
• Sicko-nomics Health care reformers should look to the banking collapse as a cautionary tale.
  Jesse M. Pines Jan. 27, 2009
  
• Steve Jobs and Me A layman's guide to islet-cell tumors in the pancreas.
  Matthew Dallek Jan. 21, 2009
  
• Let the TB Patients Go Prisonlike hospitals aren't the place to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
  Eliza Barclay Jan. 13, 2009
  
• The Not-So-Loony Bin Voluntary Madness doesn't have a new prescription for psychiatric treatment.
  Leonard Groopman Jan. 7, 2009