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Asian skin-whitening trend brings health risks and illegal batches of bleaching creams.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 15, 2006
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More tainting of science with politics from the Bush administration.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 12, 2006
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A Catholic teacher alleges that she was fired for the way she conceived her twins.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
May 12, 2006
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Legislators and womens advocates continue to shake hands across the aisle.
By Lynn Harris
May 10, 2006
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More on a new campaign for advance emergency contraception prescriptions.
By Lynn Harris
May 10, 2006
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Why we must step in where supposedly comprehensive health services leave off.
By Lynn Harris
May 10, 2006
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Former South African president is acquitted of rape, but is guilty of setting his country back.
By Lynn Harris
May 10, 2006
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New York Times Magazine packs a punch with a comprehensive reminder of how the people who oppose abortion now want your birth control pills.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 9, 2006
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Microbicides let women protect themselves from getting infected by men who protest condoms, play around.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 8, 2006
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Taxpayer-funded "pregnancy crisis centers" accused of deception in thwarting abortions
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 1, 2006
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Nepalese mothers take to the hills to inform people about a vaccination campaign.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 1, 2006
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Ibuprofen, aspirin and naproxen may offer more benefits than we think.
By Lori Leibovich
January 17, 2006
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Two bold collections of essays about the most intimate of acts prove that good sex makes a great memory, but bad sex makes a great story.
By David Amsden
January 1, 2006
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A new South African law puts new prohibitions on girls' vaginal inspections.
By Hillary Frey
December 30, 2005
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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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Not only is coffee not bad for you, it might actually help your heart.
By Hillary Frey
November 9, 2005
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Does "shopping for the cure" cheapen the reality of breast cancer?
By Ayelet Waldman
October 10, 2005
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Mike Huckabee, Arkansas' newly skinny governor, weighs in on the humilation of being fat, why government shouldn't police our grease, and whether he's planning to diet his way to the White House.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
May 31, 2005
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The White House is pouring money into programs that tell teens to just say no to sex. Most experts say the programs don't work -- except to enrich the religious right.
By Michelle Goldberg
February 24, 2004
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In America, fat and poor go together. A new book looks at why.
By Laura Miller
January 9, 2003
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Is Osama suffering from a rare disease that can cause sudden death?
By Mark Francis Cohen
November 9, 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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Health guru Gary Null says everything about the American diet is an abomination, a continuous trade of health for convenience that has to be stopped.
June 5, 2001
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A writer gets to be a voyeur during a dominance party at the world-famous brothel.
By Alexa Albert
May 30, 2001
A dangerous shade of pale
The joy of sex writing
Be very afraid
Pink is the new black
Getting religion about health
Bush's sex fantasy
"Fat Land" by Greg Critser
Does bin Laden have Marfan syndrome?
The AIDS-drug warrior
Overfed and undernourished
Mustang Ranch
GigaOM Network
Glenn Greenwald