BY THE NUMBERS
Discussing sex with your tweens and teens can help them make better choices. Here's how.
Southern Discomfort
Christopher Dickey returns to his roots to look at how the presidential race is unsettling the old South.
MEDICINE
Researchers get closer to a more effective HIV treatment—and possibly a vaccine
HEALTH
Despite the stigma, electroshock therapy is making a quiet comeback.
HEALTH CARE
What the massive turnout for a free medical and dental clinic in southwest Virginia reveals about the widening gap between health-care haves and have-nots in the United States
PROJECT GREEN
What you can't see could make you sick. How to get rid of it.
PROJECT GREEN
A warmer planet could mean we'll suffer more (and stronger) allergies.
HEALTH
As Congress moves to ban phthalates from toys, parents try to make sense of conflicting research.
JUSTICE
How police can better handle emotionally disturbed citizens.
CULTURE
Dr. Drew on New York's ban on cigarettes for addicts
HEALTH
Can cholesterol-lowering drugs reduce the risk of dementia?
PROSTITUTION
As San Francisco prepares to vote on a bid to legalize prostitution, a closer look at a program designed to focus on buyers, rather than sellers, in the sex trade.
READER FEEDBACK
Does media portrayal of teen mothers help destigmatize the issue for the unfortunate who end up pregnant? Or does it somehow legitimize premarital sex? Readers weigh in.
HEALTH
RELIGION
HEALTH
Florida's tomato growers on what it was like to defend maligned produce during the recent salmonella outbreak and how they'll get tomatoes back on menus now that it's off the FDA's list of potential culprits.
HEALTH MATTERS
Women were the villains when it came to STDs, as brought to you by the U.S. Public Health Service in the 1940s.
TEEN PREGNANCY
OK! magazine's executive editor discusses their cover story on 17-year-old actress and new mom, Jamie Lynn Spears. Does the spread glamorize teen pregnancy?
HEALTH
As a new study paints a dark picture for babies born before 37 weeks, an expert offers advice about having a healthy pregnancy.
MEDICINE
Instead of helping her, they ignored her. The story behind the videotape that shocked the country.
FAMILY
When is it okay to lie to your kids?
PARENTING
Some parents give ADHD kids a break from their meds during summer, but is that a wise move for kids who go to camp?
MEDICINE
According to medical lore, July is the worst time to be hospitalized because that's when inexperienced med students start clinical training. But is summer really riskier for patients?
PHARMACOLOGY
How some dedicated scientists and former flower children managed to bring hallucinogenic drug research back to mainstream labs after more than 30 years.
PSYCHIATRY
In a new book, psychiatrist James Gordon explains why he believes there's a more effective and drug-free way to treat depression and anxiety.
HEALTH CARE
What the massive turnout for a free medical and dental clinic in southwest Virginia reveals about the widening gap between health-care haves and have-nots in the United States.
BY THE NUMBERS
Discussing sex with your tweens and teens can help them make better choices. Here's how.
Diet soda was the last and seemingly the least harmful addiction I had to conquer. But giving it up, and recognizing the havoc it was wreaking on my body, was harder than I thought.
CELEBRITY HEALTH WATCH
A representative claims the sores on the troubled singer's face are the result of a surprisingly common skin infection.
'Dirty Dancing' star Patrick Swayze faces a difficult battle with pancreatic cancer.
As the leading GOP presidential candidate, McCain has put the potentially deadly disease in the spotlight.
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