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A recession is good for our health, argues a current study making the media rounds. It needs a second opinion.
By Rahul K. Parikh. M.D.
December 22, 2008
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Sexologist Michael Perelman answers questions about sexual dysfunction and pleasure.
December 2, 2008
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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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Normal boys and girls are taking growth hormones for being short. That's a bad prescription.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
October 31, 2008
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I was aggravated by the treatment my mother was receiving in the hospital -- until I spoke up.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
September 26, 2008
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Modern medical practice is burning out doctors. That's bad for our health and yours. We need a cure. But first I need a nap.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
August 29, 2008
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Colorado doctors are under fire for performing infant organ transplants prematurely. But they made the right call.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
August 19, 2008
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Should I try to return to life as it was before, or should I set out on adventures?
By Cary Tennis
August 19, 2008
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His parents paid for everything and mine did not. So I'm in debt and he isn't. Why are we fighting about this?
By Cary Tennis
August 18, 2008
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Yes, alternative medicine works mostly by the power of suggestion. But so do a lot of conventional treatments.
By Robert Burton
August 1, 2008
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I need help dealing with these migraines or I don't know if I'll make it!
By Cary Tennis
July 3, 2008
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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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With childhood obesity at alarming rates, movie tie-ins to fast food are irresponsible. An open letter to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
May 21, 2008
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The host of the PBS special "Change Your Brain, Change Your Life" addresses the critical Salon article about him.
By Daniel Amen, M.D.
May 12, 2008
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This fascinating portrait of a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital is about much more than white coats and beeping consoles -- it's 21st-century America in a microcosm.
By Laura Miller
May 6, 2008
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Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
April 22, 2008
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How important is education in a relationship, and can we be happy if he is less ambitious than I am?
By Cary Tennis
April 9, 2008
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A gravely ill detainee I represent, never charged with a crime, has been neglected by military doctors. Will he be the next to die inside the notorious prison?
By H. Candace Gorman
March 14, 2008
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The widely publicized court victory for the family who claimed vaccines caused autism in their daughter does not prove a link.
By Rahul Parikh, M.D.
March 13, 2008
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How drug company advertisements, doctors, pharmacies and patients intertwine to cause an overdose.
By Larry Zaroff, M.D., Ph.D.
March 6, 2008
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The medical establishment is opposed to drop-in clinics in Wal-Marts and other retail stores. But self-interested doctors need to get over their archaic ways of doing business.
By Rahul K. Parikh, M.D.
February 19, 2008
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I moved to Colorado but could move back if I had to.
By Cary Tennis
February 6, 2008
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The drug Lybrel promises to free women from their monthly curse. But today it's a sales pitch that seems hopelessly outdated.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
February 4, 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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Susan Wicklund has received death threats and worn a bulletproof vest to work. But what really scares her, she writes in "This Common Secret," is the war on reproductive rights.
By Eryn Loeb
January 22, 2008
Health for hard times
Big Think: Is monogamy passé?
She has Alzheimer's and I don't want to care for her
Growth hormones for kids
Playing the doctor card
Dr. Feelbad
Did doctors remove babies' hearts too soon?
Why "placebo" is not a dirty word
Sick in the head
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of fat kids
Daniel Amen responds to "Brain scam"
Hospital, USA
Race and the white coat
A sickening truth at Guantánamo
What the Poling autism case means
Understanding Heath Ledger's death
Wal-Mart can be good for your health
The end of menstruation
Minding our health
The abortion doctor
GigaOM Network
Broadsheet
War Room