Why does it take a serious disease to make us rethink our lives?
By Cary Tennis Dec 8, 2009
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I've got only a genetic disease and old age to look forward to
By Cary Tennis
October 6, 2009
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I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
By Jennifer Traig
June 21, 2008
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If chemo fails, there's always positive thinking, or so we'd like to believe. Medical historian Anne Harrington looks at our persistent faith in curing ourselves.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
January 26, 2008
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Despots rule! Vic Mackey of "The Shield" seeks revenge, while Showtime invents a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII.
By Heather Havrilesky
April 1, 2007
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How can I avoid becoming the primary caregiver for my mother-in-law when she lives next door?
By Cary Tennis
November 12, 2008
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So many things go unasked; so much suffering occurs in silence.
By Cary Tennis
September 12, 2008
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I sometimes have to leave the room it's so bad! Should I say something?
By Cary Tennis
January 7, 2008
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I make things work. I do the right thing. I solve problems. So what makes me one of the 25 out of 100,000 who get this disease?
By Cary Tennis
October 19, 2007
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My wife and I could live anywhere and have great success as doctors, but my mother and sister are ill and need help at home.
By Cary Tennis
October 16, 2007
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I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope!
By Cary Tennis
March 8, 2007
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The American Heart Association issues some new female-specific guidelines.
By Catherine Price
February 20, 2007
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In "The Monster at Our Door," "City of Quartz" author Mike Davis warns that urban poverty has created the perfect conditions for bird flu to kill millions of people.
By Joshuah Bearman
December 13, 2005
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George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why.
By Farhad Manjoo
June 8, 2005
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When a doctor told me AIDS would soon end my life, I stopped planning for one. That was 20 years ago.
By Hugh Elliott
January 30, 2002
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For sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a real-live anthrax scare can mean years of misery.
By Amy Traverso
November 19, 2001
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Is panic the right response to the specter of bioterrorism?
By Chris Colin
October 3, 2001
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A doctor says the fight to get cheap AIDS drugs to Africa is misguided: These people need water, food and basic healthcare.
By Daryl Lindsey
June 27, 2001
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Activist Jamie Love says pharmaceutical companies
must be forced to yield their patents to save hundreds of thousands
of lives. Is he a visionary -- or a dangerous radical?
By Daryl Lindsey
June 18, 2001
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The FDA says ads for drugs to suppress HIV are making false promises, and could be contributing to an epidemic of unsafe sex.
By Daryl Lindsey
May 8, 2001
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The World Trade Organization steps into Africa's AIDS crisis, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to give some of their drugs away.
By Ben Barber
March 19, 2001
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As the British meat market faces yet another crisis, experts at home assess the risk of foot-and-mouth disease in the U.S.
By Dawn MacKeen
March 3, 2001
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How to tell a sex partner -- with minimum pain and suffering -- that you've been diagnosed with an STD.
By Charles Anders
December 4, 2000
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Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art.
By Lauren Slater
July 5, 2000
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You might want to live forever, but should Hitler?
By Susan McCarthy
March 30, 2000
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The AIDS-drug warrior
The "Joe Camel" ads of AIDS?
Fighting the plague
Europe's livestock plague
Making the call
One nation, under the weather
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