Research

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Who owns your DNA?
Genetic research that can save lives is often stymied by biotech companies' greedy patent claims.
Mixed meds
Think twice before mixing your herbs and your prescription medicine.
A new urgency
With his country at the epicenter of an AIDS epidemic, the special advisor to South Africa's health minister quietly makes his first trip to an important research conference.
Bill Gates pledges $4 billion for third-world medicines
Vaccines are not unlike software: They require a big investment up front, but then they're cheap to make.
Word doctor
A Harvard physician believes poetry can soothe and even heal his patients.
Who will go nuts?
Predicting mental illness is usually no better than gambling, but we keep trying.
Star sickness
Celebrities speaking out about their afflictions can raise awareness and money.
I was a human crash-test dummy
For 15 years, a professor gave his body for human impact-survival research -- and lived to tell the tale.
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.
Hair today, hair tomorrow
I say, if your head looks bad, put something on it.
Docs who lie and the patients who thank them
A new survey suggests many physicians will fib to get around HMO restrictions.
Eating Satan's footprints
What can the onion and garlic diet do for you? Ask, rather, what you can do for Macedonia.
Orgasms and outrage
Experts on female sexual dysfunction gather in Boston and dance with their shirts off.
Pot on the brain
Our bodies produce cannabis-like substances anyway, so why not put them in pill form to kill pain?
Irish coffee cure
A study with rats shows that an alcohol-caffeine cocktail after a stroke can protect the brain.
Why is Madison Avenue gripped by insanity?
After pondering the "cultural meat values" of Peparami, the only question remaining is: What are these guys smoking?
The worried well
Patients who over-research their ailments sometimes do more harm than good.
The return of the hidden persuaders
Driven by a booming economy, a corporate obsession with brand-building and a feelgood philosophy, a motley crew of ex-grad students, starry-eyed admen and hypnosis gurus are probing the consumer unconscious to sell soap.
A true fish story
Fish breath may be the only side effect to the latest antidepressant.
Fisticuffs in the cube
Stressed-out office workers are succumbing to "desk rage."
Stress causes girls?
A study suggests that stress at conception can make your baby more likely to be female.
Soft-contact safety questions
A new study shows a higher risk of infection with soft contacts, especially if worn overnight.
Got milk?
New tests point to a fat compound in milk as a possible STD fighter.
It's all in your head
Viagra may get the gears in motion, but if the gal thinks lust is lacking, she may take a hike.
The big E
Doctors, law enforcement and ravers are scrutinizing ecstasy's possible long-term effects as the drug pours into the U.S. in record numbers.
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