Health and medicine explained.

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• Waiting Doom How hospitals are killing E.R. patients.
  Jesse M. Pines July 24, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Are C-section rates rising because mothers are getting older? And why cholesterol drugs for kids are such a bad idea.
  Sydney Spiesel July 14, 2008
  
• The Nose That Never Knows The miseries of losing one's sense of smell.
  Elizabeth Zierah July 8, 2008
  
• The Sex Difference Evangelists The next best-seller.
  Amanda Schaffer July 1, 2008
  
• Dr. R2-D2 The invasion of the surgeon robots.
  Kent Sepkowitz  June 27, 2008
  
• The God Committee Should criminals have equal access to scarce medical treatments?
  Sally Satel June 17, 2008
  
• Can a Night Owl Become a Morning Person? A Slate experiment.
  Deepa Ranganathan June 13, 2008
  
• Old Drugs, New Tricks Why big health advances rarely involve new medicines.
  Darshak Sanghavi June 10, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Bed-wetting, SIDS, and emergency contraception.
  Sydney Spiesel June 5, 2008
  
• Sex and the Country Forget New York. Samantha should move to the sticks.
  Emily Anthes May 29, 2008
  
• The Pink-Bubble-Gum- Flavored Dilemma Why doctors give out antibiotics you don't need.
  Zachary Meisel May 21, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Tantalizing new insight into fat cells. Also, why to eat chocolate while pregnant.
  Sydney Spiesel May 13, 2008
  
• Stealth Marketers Are doctors shilling for drug companies on public radio?
  Jeanne Lenzer May 6, 2008
  
• The Doctor Is in Your PC I was irritable, gloomy, and couldn't afford a therapist. So, I tried FearFighter™ instead.
  Daniel B. Smith April 29, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Getting rid of dust mites—worthwhile?
  Sydney Spiesel April 25, 2008
  
• Natural Disasters Why do we focus on the least important causes of cancer?
  Darshak Sanghavi April 15, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Is breast-feeding not all it's cracked up to be? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel April 8, 2008
  
• Footloose and Sugar-Free The odyssey of my no-sweets diet.
  Laura Moser April 1, 2008
  
• Doctors Without Orders The mystery of patients who fail to follow prescriptions.
  Jessica Wapner March 21, 2008
  
• For Teeth and for Country John Adams' misplaced celebration of America's dental achievements.
  Kent Sepkowitz  March 17, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Does Airborne work? And should 30 million more kids get a flu shot?
  Sydney Spiesel March 14, 2008
  
• Training Daze Why do doctors fixate on diagnosis, not treatment?
  Darshak Sanghavi March 12, 2008
  
• Is There a Glucometer on Board? How About an Oxygen Tank? What doctors need to take care of sick airline passengers.
  Zachary Meisel March 6, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Sniffing out illness—literally. And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Feb. 26, 2008
  
• Neurostimulation Is it a good idea to drill holes in people's heads to treat them for depression?
  Sarah E. Richards Feb. 19, 2008
  
• The Merry Band of Wrigglers Men, women, passion, and sperm.
  Melinda Wenner Feb. 13, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week The shocking end to that big diabetes study. Plus: Is weed bad for your teeth?
  Sydney Spiesel Feb. 12, 2008
  
• The Chikungunya Question What effect does climate change have on the spread of disease?
  Maria Said Feb. 6, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week Is chocolate bad for the bones? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Jan. 30, 2008
  
• The Pill, a Rock Opera Its long-running health saga.
  Amanda Schaffer Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Sunny Side Up Screw-ups over unpublished data or no, antidepressants still work.
  Peter D. Kramer Jan. 22, 2008
  
• Your Health This Week How to live 14 years longer. And LASIK, looking good.
  Sydney Spiesel Jan. 15, 2008
  
• Group Therapy How poorly designed trials for cancer drugs are hurting patients.
  Jessica Wapner Jan. 10, 2008
  
• The Body Electric's New Look Why shock therapy deserves its mini-revival.
  Barron H. Lerner Jan. 3, 2008