http://dir.salon.com/topics/disease/?source=rss&aim=disease en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST By Cary Tennis Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/11/12/alzheimers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/11/12/alzheimers/index.html?source=rss How can I avoid becoming the primary caregiver for my mother-in-law when she lives next door? By Cary Tennis Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/10/06/turning_50/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/10/06/turning_50/index.html?source=rss I've got only a genetic disease and old age to look forward to By Jennifer Traig Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2008/06/21/jennifer_traig/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/excerpt/2008/06/21/jennifer_traig/index.html?source=rss I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria. By Katharine Mieszkowski Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/01/26/cure_within/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/01/26/cure_within/index.html?source=rss 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 Heather Havrilesky Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2007/04/01/the_shield/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/iltw/2007/04/01/the_shield/index.html?source=rss Despots rule! Vic Mackey of "The Shield" seeks revenge, while Showtime invents a slimmer, sexier King Henry VIII. By Cary Tennis Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/12/birthday_column/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/09/12/birthday_column/index.html?source=rss So many things go unasked; so much suffering occurs in silence. By Cary Tennis Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/07/office_farter/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2008/01/07/office_farter/index.html?source=rss I sometimes have to leave the room it's so bad! Should I say something? By Cary Tennis Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/19/bells_palsy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/19/bells_palsy/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/16/doctors/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/10/16/doctors/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/03/08/cancer_and_suicide/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2007/03/08/cancer_and_suicide/index.html?source=rss I wanted to die even before I got sick. But my family will kill me if I just give up hope! By Catherine Price Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/20/heart/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/02/20/heart/index.html?source=rss The American Heart Association issues some new female-specific guidelines. By Joshuah Bearman Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/12/13/davis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2005/12/13/davis/index.html?source=rss 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 Farhad Manjoo Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/08/stem_cells/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/06/08/stem_cells/index.html?source=rss George Bush's opposition to stem cell research is intellectually and morally incoherent. Here's why. By Hugh Elliott Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/01/30/aids/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2002/01/30/aids/index.html?source=rss When a doctor told me AIDS would soon end my life, I stopped planning for one. That was 20 years ago. By Amy Traverso Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/11/19/obsessive/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2001/11/19/obsessive/index.html?source=rss For sufferers of obsessive-compulsive disorder, a real-live anthrax scare can mean years of misery. By Chris Colin Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/03/bioterror/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2001/10/03/bioterror/index.html?source=rss Is panic the right response to the specter of bioterrorism? By Daryl Lindsey Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/27/aids_poverty/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/27/aids_poverty/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/18/love/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/06/18/love/index.html?source=rss 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 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/05/08/drug_ads/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/05/08/drug_ads/index.html?source=rss The FDA says ads for drugs to suppress HIV are making false promises, and could be contributing to an epidemic of unsafe sex. By Ben Barber Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/19/aids_drugs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/19/aids_drugs/index.html?source=rss The World Trade Organization steps into Africa's AIDS crisis, creating incentives for pharmaceutical companies to give some of their drugs away. By Dawn MacKeen Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/03/livestock/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/03/03/livestock/index.html?source=rss 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 Charles Anders Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/12/04/std/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/feature/2000/12/04/std/index.html?source=rss How to tell a sex partner -- with minimum pain and suffering -- that you've been diagnosed with an STD. By Lauren Slater Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/07/05/slater/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/07/05/slater/index.html?source=rss Stung by a pan in the New York Times, an "illness memoirist" defends her art. By Susan McCarthy Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/30/immortal/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/30/immortal/index.html?source=rss You might want to live forever, but should Hitler? By Robert Burton, M.D. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/20/stress/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/03/20/stress/index.html?source=rss Act more like a zebra and it won't kill you.