Medicine

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  • The hardest question

    Even after doing it hundreds of times, it's never easy to ask someone whether they want you to let them die.
    By Jeff Drayer March 27, 2000

  • Mother love in an African village

    Is it worth saving a baby's life if everything else changes?
    By Tanya Shaffer January 29, 2000

  • The survivalist's guide to do-it-yourself medicine

    Come the apocalypse, who will fill your prescriptions?
    By Mary Roach December 17, 1999

  • Word doctor

    A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
    By Rafael Campo, M.D. December 8, 1999

  • Brave new world or future shock?

    Medical scientists predict technologies such as animal-to-human organ transplants and toilets that send info to your doctor.
    By Jon Bowen November 17, 1999

  • Tell me where it hurts

    Is it ethical for a doctor-turned-writer to use his patients for material?
    By Amy O'Connor November 15, 1999

  • Backwoods E.R.

    In these parts, you meet your neighbors one crisis at a time.
    By Mike Perry November 11, 1999

  • Letters to the Editor

    Is it better to be food-obsessed than fat and happy? Plus: Trolling for errors in "Dutch"; hip-hop merits not less scrutiny, but greater intellectual rigor.
    Letters to the Editor November 10, 1999

  • Orgasms and outrage

    Experts on female sexual dysfunction gather in Boston and dance with their shirts off.
    By Barbara Raab October 28, 1999

  • Shot in the arm

    Flu shots are being given in casinos, grocery stores and Target stores.
    By Damien Cave October 27, 1999

  • Spin doctoring

    Expectations about your health or illness can cause reality to follow suit.
    By Susan McCarthy July 15, 1999

  • Scary as hell

    People are dying because antibiotics can't keep up with resistant bugs.
    By Arthur Allen June 11, 1999

  • Cutting into sacred territory

    A Navajo medical student faces one of the strongest taboos of her culture -- touching the dead.
    By Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D., and Elizabeth Cohen Van Pelt June 9, 1999

  • Thought-activated computing

    Thought-activated computing: By Sam Witt and Sean Durkin. The cyberpunk vision of a brain/computer interface becomes real -- as a boon for the paralyzed.
    By Sam Witt And Sean Durkin November 23, 1998

  • 21st: Six clicks from death

    When you're facing a strange new illness, the wealth of medical information online can help. It can also drive you crazy.
    By Cynthia Joyce May 24, 1997
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