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  • Bioethics comes of age

    A lawsuit blaming the nation's most prominent bioethicist for the death of an 18-year-old prompts a reexamination of the field.
    By Arthur Allen September 28, 2000

  • Better loving through chemistry

    Why do guys sulk after a fight with their girlfriends instead of talking the problem to death? It's the hormone, stupid!
    By Amy O'Connor September 27, 2000

  • Fighting to die

    I've read about therapists who brilliantly talk people out of killing themselves. But when a patient paged me to say goodbye, I was just scared and pissed off.
    By Dan Shapiro September 25, 2000

  • Geriatrics to the rescue

    A South Carolina clinic is offering good healthcare to the uninsured and a meaningful life to retired doctors. Can the idea spread to the rest of the country?
    By Hal Millard September 22, 2000

  • Spas from hell

    Others may envy those privileged hedonists who can afford to pay people exorbitant sums to beat them to an herb-scented pulp, but I know better.
    By Susan Seligson September 21, 2000

  • Medical gender wars

    First came the whining feminists. Next, the inevitable male backlash. Health research has become a casualty of the battle between the sexes.
    By Cathy Young September 20, 2000

  • Germ theory of obesity gains weight

    An Indian researcher believes a virus may be responsible for obesity -- and he's not as crazy as he sounds.
    By Tabitha M. Powledge September 19, 2000

  • Siesta science

    Can napping improve the world and your health?
    By Liz Hille September 18, 2000

  • Forced prenatal care

    Rebecca Corneau may be a religious extremist whose gross negligence allowed her last baby to die. But experts still contend she has the right to do whatever she pleases with her fetus.
    By Michele Nicolosi September 15, 2000

  • Seeing red

    Gay men have long been infuriated by a government ban on their donating blood. This week the FDA is reconsidering its position.
    By David Tuller September 14, 2000

  • Facing the plate

    I thought losing weight would get me the love I sought. Instead, I got a hospital room and a plate of spaghetti.
    By Evelyn Strauss September 13, 2000

  • The battle over bio-terror

    A recent report urges America to pour $13 billion into preventing disease-based warfare, but evidence suggests that our fears are misplaced.
    By Arthur Allen September 12, 2000

  • Anatomy of sexual risk

    An HIV-negative gay man shares why he sleeps with seropositive men and how he deals with the danger.
    By David Tuller September 11, 2000

  • Prescription politics

    What's the difference between the Bush and Gore health plans?
    By Alan Berlow September 8, 2000

  • Prenatal quackery

    A doctor assails obstetric care in America as absurd, expensive and dysfunctional.
    By Annie Murphy Paul September 6, 2000

  • Castrating chemicals

    A sexually abusive doctor claims he's been cured by a testosterone - reducing drug called Lupron.
    By Leah Kohlenberg September 5, 2000

  • Chemical ravings

    Worried that ecstasy may fry the serotonin cells in their brains, some ravers are taking Prozac.
    By Eric Sabo September 1, 2000

  • Bitter pills

    Pharmaceutical companies are apoplectic over Gore's prescription drug pricing proposal
    By Alan Berlow August 31, 2000

  • Striking down medical marijuana

    San Francisco's pro-pot district attorney discusses the long-term implications of the Supreme Court's ruling.
    By David Tuller August 31, 2000

  • Portrait of a drug czar

    Gen. Barry McCaffrey drives his government office like a lockstep battalion, but some contend his ruthless schedule and egomaniacal ways are only hurting his effort to bring sanity to America's drug policy.
    By Arthur Allen August 30, 2000

  • Out on a limb

    A New York psychologist searches for a hospital to allow his healthy right leg to be cut off after a Scottish facility refuses.
    By Randy Dotinga August 29, 2000

  • Bone dry

    After I die, I want maggots to eat away my flesh so my skeleton can be used for research purposes.
    By Pegi Taylor August 28, 2000

  • Designer eggs

    This month a panel of medical experts responded to a Web pornographer who tried to auction supermodel eggs.
    By Jay Dixit August 25, 2000

  • Handicapped

    Why are we hearing about a successful hand transplant two years after the fact? Maybe because the field's first poster child turned out to be a criminal who couldn't afford his meds.
    By Arthur Allen August 24, 2000

  • Battling the pharmaceutical Microsoft

    Hepatitis C activists are angry about Schering-Plough's decision to "bundle" two drugs, one of which is a potentially life-saving pill not available anywhere else.
    By David Tuller August 22, 2000
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