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Unsent letters, unvoiced questions: So many things go unasked; so much suffering occurs in silence.; By Cary Tennis Sep 12, 2008
Sick in the head: I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.; By Jennifer Traig Jun 21, 2008
Minding our health: 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 Jan 26, 2008
My office mate lets off noxious farts: I sometimes have to leave the room it's so bad! Should I say something?; By Cary Tennis Jan 7, 2008
Why me? What did I do to deserve Bell's palsy?: 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 Oct 19, 2007
Will my family drag us down?: 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 Oct 16, 2007
I Like to Watch: Despots rule! Vic Mackey of "The Shield" seeks revenge, while Showtime invents a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII.; By Heather Havrilesky Apr 1, 2007
I've got breast cancer and I don't want to live: I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope!; By Cary Tennis Mar 8, 2007
Heart health for women: The American Heart Association issues some new female-specific guidelines.; Catherine Price Feb 20, 2007
Be very afraid: 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 Dec 13, 2005
Everything you always wanted to know about the stem cell debate: George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why.; By Farhad Manjoo Jun 8, 2005
Now what?: When a doctor told me AIDS would soon end my life, I stopped planning for one. That was 20 years ago.; By Hugh Elliott Jan 30, 2002
This time the germs are real: For sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a real-live anthrax scare can mean years of misery.; By Amy Traverso Nov 19, 2001
Poison on the mind: Is panic the right response to the specter of bioterrorism?; By Chris Colin Oct 3, 2001
A pandemic fueled by poverty: 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 Jun 27, 2001
The AIDS-drug warrior: 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 Jun 18, 2001
The "Joe Camel" ads of AIDS?: 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
Fighting the plague: 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 Mar 19, 2001
Europe's livestock plague: 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 Mar 3, 2001
Making the call: How to tell a sex partner -- with minimum pain and suffering -- that you've been diagnosed with an STD.; By Charles Anders Dec 4, 2000
One nation, under the weather: Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art.; By Lauren Slater Jul 5, 2000
On immortality: You might want to live forever, but should Hitler?; By Susan McCarthy Mar 30, 2000
Stress: Act more like a zebra and it won't kill you.; By Robert Burton, M.D. Mar 20, 2000
Homeopathy: It's not wizardry; in fact, it's based on the same principle as vaccination.; By Debra Ollivier Mar 16, 2000
Who owns your DNA?: Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims.; By Arthur Allen Mar 7, 2000

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