Health and medicine explained.

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• Help, My Prescription Pen Is Running Out of Ink Why doctors need to keep the power to give drugs off-label.
  Rahul Parikh Dec. 27, 2007
  
• Ending the Great Pill Price Hike Congress, step up for college women before the year ends.
  Amanda Schaffer Dec. 18, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Shots for adults and honey for kids.
  Sydney Spiesel Dec. 13, 2007
  
• Penny a Pound Should the government pay you to lose weight?
  Jake Halpern Dec. 4, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Are teens who have sex early really headed for trouble? And do their diets cause acne?
  Sydney Spiesel Nov. 29, 2007
  
• Operation Fear The creepy claim about anesthesia awareness in the new movie Awake.
  Kent Sepkowitz  Nov. 28, 2007
  
• Skipping Baby Steps The case for going straight to IVF.
  Sarah E. Richards Nov. 20, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Does sex late in pregnancy set off labor? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Nov. 13, 2007
  
• In Which I Bug Myself Tracking my calorie burn in real time.
  Amanda Schaffer Nov. 7, 2007
  
• Sick Man Guiliani's flip-flop on health insurance for kids.
  Sara Mosle Nov. 5, 2007
  
• The Best of Times, the Worst of Times When during the day should you take your medication? Good question.
  Emily Anthes Nov. 1, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Does daylight-saving time mess with your body's internal clock? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Nov. 1, 2007
  
• Pill Popping Debunking the power of the placebo effect.
  Darshak Sanghavi Oct. 23, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Could smaller elementary school classes make kids healthier?
  Sydney Spiesel Oct. 16, 2007
  
• Kidney Picking Why so many of the valuable organs are going to waste.
  Jake Halpern Oct. 10, 2007
  
• Eat Crap Why Americans should ingest more excrement.
  Kent Sepkowitz  Oct. 9, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Genetic testing for being at risk of suicide? Plus, invasion of the lionfish.
  Sydney Spiesel Oct. 2, 2007
  
• The New Cigarette A new book argues that chemical waste is as much to blame for cancer as smoking.
  Barron H. Lerner Sept. 24, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Are food additives making your kid hyperactive? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Sept. 18, 2007
  
• Under the Influence? Drug companies, medical journals, and money.
  Kent Sepkowitz  Sept. 10, 2007
  
• Available Jones, M.D. What if all patients could be seen on the day they call?
  Marina Krakovsky Sept. 4, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Can a roller coaster really scare you to death? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Aug. 28, 2007
  
• Getting the Lead Out If only it were as easy as recalling the Mattel toys.
  Darshak Sanghavi Aug. 21, 2007
  
• Sunny Daze Is tanning addictive? Does sunscreen really help prevent skin cancer? And other burning summer questions.
  Amanda Schaffer Aug. 14, 2007
  
• Medical Misnomer Addiction isn't a brain disease, Congress.
  Sally Satel July 25, 2007
  
• Wrong Number Is it cost effective to treat the world's poor?
  Darshak Sanghavi July 17, 2007
  
• Bug Zappers The best futuristic ideas for killing drug-resistant bacteria.
  Amanda Schaffer July 12, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Snus—the safer option for smokers. And more.
  Sydney Spiesel July 10, 2007
  
• Beware of Diet What if counting calories makes you fatter in the long run?
  Sydney Spiesel July 4, 2007
  
• Michael Moore and the Beige Bomber He's got the indictment of health care right, but not the fix.
  Austan Goolsbee July 2, 2007
  
• True Believers Why there's no dispelling the myth that vaccines cause autism.
  Arthur Allen June 29, 2007
  
• Fear of Replacement What if a vaccine kills off one strain of a disease—but makes room for another?
  Arthur Allen June 21, 2007
  
• Fishing for Paramecia Making art out of the wizardry of biotech.
  Amanda Schaffer June 19, 2007
  
• Stretch Marks for Dads What fatherhood does to the body and the brain.
  Emily Anthes June 14, 2007
  
• Unnatural Poise Learning the Alexander Technique.
  Laura Moser June 12, 2007
  
• Conventional Wisdom? The excesses of the medical conference craze.
  Kent Sepkowitz  June 8, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week How travel can spread TB and how flour can help prevent stroke.
  Sydney Spiesel June 5, 2007
  
• Hidden Rations Why poor kids can't find a dentist.
  Anne Alstott May 29, 2007
  
• Thimerosal on Trial The theory that vaccines cause autism goes to court.
  Arthur Allen May 28, 2007
  
• The Get-Out-of-Bed-Free Card New and old strategies for children who won't sleep.
  Sydney Spiesel May 25, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Promising new treatments for cancer and osteoporosis.
  Sydney Spiesel May 22, 2007
  
• Sex Nets The puzzling rise and fall and rise of HIV and AIDS in Africa.
  Jon Cohen May 15, 2007
  
• Plumber's Butt? The right and wrong way to think about heart attacks.
  Darshak Sanghavi May 8, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Breast-feeding and weight, and the new no-period Pill.
  Sydney Spiesel May 3, 2007
  
• The Fertility Maze Two new books chart the ever-present pitfalls of assisted reproduction.
  Maggie Jones May 1, 2007
  
• Don't Shoot Why video games really are linked to violence.
  Amanda Schaffer April 27, 2007
  
• Eating for Fewer Than One Calorie restriction, the newest eating disorder.
  Kate Taylor April 23, 2007
  
• Psychopath? Depressive? Schizophrenic? Was Cho Seung-Hui really like the Columbine killers?
  Dave Cullen April 20, 2007
  
• No More Virginal Spend $1 billion on abstinence education. Get nothing.
  Amanda Schaffer April 20, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week The discovery of a fat gene. Plus: Do swimming pools make you sick?
  Sydney Spiesel April 17, 2007
  
• The Lurking Elizabeth Edwards Question Do pregnancy and fertility treatment increase the risk of breast cancer?
  Amanda Schaffer April 9, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Circadian rhythms, crazy expensive asthma inhalers, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel April 3, 2007
  
• Why Do We Sleep? Cleaning house.
  Amanda Schaffer March 26, 2007
  
• Elizabeth Edwards' Cancer What's likely to happen to her?
  Sydney Spiesel March 23, 2007
  
• Breathing Lessons The peculiar pleasure of earplugs.
  Thomas Beller March 20, 2007
  
• Baby Gap The surprising truth about America's infant-mortality rate.
  Darshak Sanghavi March 16, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Early puberty, the problem with cold medicine, and the aftershocks of childhood cancer.
  Sydney Spiesel March 13, 2007
  
• A Low-Down Crying Shame Why the myth of the "on the Down Low" brother refuses to die.
  Ta-Nehisi Coates March 9, 2007
  
• Dead Heads Why doctors are bad at mortality.
  Kent Sepkowitz  March 1, 2007
  
• Your Health This Week Stopping nearsightedness in kids and more.
  Sydney Spiesel Feb. 27, 2007
  
• Welcome to the Fish Fry, Mom The evidence that seafood won't hurt your baby.
  Arthur Allen Feb. 21, 2007
  
• My Mexican Dentist A medical tourist gets her teeth fixed in Nogales.
  Molly McCloy Feb. 19, 2007
  
• Your Health This Month Where intimacy comes from, the value of allergy shots for treating hay fever, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel Feb. 13, 2007
  
• The Biotech Bubble Why stem-cell research won't make states rich.
  David P. Hamilton Feb. 6, 2007
  
• Cure for Colic? Hope for a pediatrician's miracle treatment.
  Sydney Spiesel Jan. 30, 2007
  
• What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Ecstasy, the new prescription drug?
  Amanda Schaffer Jan. 23, 2007
  
• The Autism Numbers Why there's no epidemic.
  Arthur Allen Jan. 15, 2007
  
• Your Health This Month Germs that make you fat, cloned cows that won't make you sick, and the latest wonders of Botox.
  Sydney Spiesel Jan. 9, 2007