HEALTH FOR LIFE M.D.
A Harvard psychiatrist answers your questions about anxiety, depression, psychoactive drugs and other mental health issues.
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BREAST CANCER
No Guarantees
Behind the increase in prophylactic mastectomies
Behind the increase in prophylactic...
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August 27, 2008
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Surgical Cure for Diabetes?
A controversial doctor says yes; his critics say 'bull----.'
A controversial doctor says yes; his...
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August 25, 2008
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HEALTH CARE
Politics of Prevention
Can preventative measures really save money?
Can preventative measures really save...
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Sept. 1, 2008 issue
BUSINESS
With food packaging decreasing in size, but not in price, a consumer-affairs blogger offers advice for shopping smart.
HEALTH
How gloomy economic news may be affecting us physically—and what you can do to make your health more recession-resistant.
MUSIC
Three years ago, Andrew McMahon was diagnosed with leukemia. On 'The Glass Passenger,' he sings about his experience.
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.
SCIENCE
DNA discoveries are revealing why even the best parenting doesn't have the effects experts promise, from breast-feeding to letting kids learn from mistakes.
BY THE NUMBERS
A roadmap for when you see signs that your elderly parent isn't capable of driving safely.
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.
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
Seemingly minor difficulties could cause you major problems in the long term. Here's what to look for.
MY TURN
Since being diagnosed as HIV-positive in 1990, I've managed to reinvent myself at least three times.
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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