Health and medicine explained.

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• Death Be Not Manicured The latest in green burial.
  Joe Sehee Dec. 27, 2006
  
• The Skinny on Kids' Diets Revisiting 1928 wisdom.
  Sydney Spiesel Dec. 19, 2006
  
• Dr. Shameless Why I take handouts from drug companies.
  Kent Sepkowitz  Dec. 12, 2006
  
• Oversell Richard Epstein wants you to think the Democrats will wreck drug innovation.
  Judy Chevalier Dec. 12, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month Saving mice from breast cancer, the magic of red wine, and the risks of long-distance running.
  Sydney Spiesel Dec. 5, 2006
  
• Screen Alert How an ounce of Rx prevention can cause a pound of hurt.
  Darshak Sanghavi Nov. 28, 2006
  
• The Family Un-Planner The Bush administration's crazy new HHS appointment.
  Amanda Schaffer Nov. 21, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month A $1 lifesaver pill, whether teeth whiteners work, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel Oct. 31, 2006
  
• Squash the Bug Europe is killing off hospital infections. Why isn't the United States following suit?
  Arthur Allen Oct. 24, 2006
  
• Girl Talk A new pill that stops your period.
  Sarah E. Richards Oct. 18, 2006
  
• Better Medicine Fixing the left's health-care prescription.
  Jacob S. Hacker Oct. 10, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month Should you take a daily baby aspirin? And more.
  Sydney Spiesel Oct. 6, 2006
  
• Treat Me? The crucial health stat you've never heard of.
  Darshak Sanghavi Sept. 26, 2006
  
• Spare the Needle Doctors shouldn't have to draw blood on behalf of cops.
  Zachary Meisel Sept. 19, 2006
  
• The Pregnancy Watch List On risk, the FDA misses the boat.
  Courtney A. Schreiber Sept. 15, 2006
  
• Killer T-Cells The promise of using genetic engineering to treat cancer.
  Sydney Spiesel Sept. 11, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month The pitfalls of soy, daddies' baby blues, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel Sept. 4, 2006
  
• Goodbye, 1,800-Fold Price Hike Ortho-McNeil, maker of the birth-control pill, shows some mercy.
  Amanda Schaffer Aug. 29, 2006
  
• Measuring the Psychic Pain of War PTSD among Vietnam vets is less common than we thought.
  Sally Satel Aug. 29, 2006
  
• The 1,800-Fold Price Hike A maker of the pill sticks it to family-planning clinics.
  Amanda Schaffer Aug. 23, 2006
  
• Radical Reduction The benefits of stomach stapling for teenagers.
  Amanda Schaffer Aug. 22, 2006
  
• The Medical Tourist Goes Home Pain relief at last, courtesy of JFK.
  Laura Moser Aug. 15, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month Why to drink lots of coffee, whether acupuncture works, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel July 25, 2006
  
• Gateway to Nowhere? The evidence that pot doesn't lead to heroin.
  Ryan Grim July 20, 2006
  
• Why We're Fatter Five reasons you haven't thought of.
  Sydney Spiesel July 13, 2006
  
• The Medical Malpractice Myth Forget tort reform. The Democrats have a better diagnosis.
  Ezra Klein July 11, 2006
  
• Viral Effect The campaign for abstinence hits a dead end on HPV.
  Amanda Schaffer July 3, 2006
  
• All Too Quiet Where were the doctors and nurses at Abu Ghraib and Bagram?
  Steven H. Miles June 27, 2006
  
• Take the Shrink Challenge Can a psychiatrist really tell what's wrong with you?
  Michael Brus June 22, 2006
  
• A Few Good Doctors Don't look for them on a magazine top-10 list.
  Kent Sepkowitz  June 13, 2006
  
• And Now, the HPV Vaccine Warts and all.
  Arthur Allen June 8, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month Summer hazards and a potential sex gene. Plus, how much lobster is too much?
  Sydney Spiesel June 6, 2006
  
• Of Mice or Men The problems with animal testing.
  Arthur Allen June 1, 2006
  
• Eat Me The Soviet method for attacking infection that we can learn from.
  Daria Vaisman May 30, 2006
  
• Stopping Suicide 101 The dilemma of college students who threaten to kill themselves.
  Amanda Schaffer May 26, 2006
  
• The Vioxx War The Wall Street Journal v. the New England Journal of Medicine.
  Sydney Spiesel May 23, 2006
  
• Flag on the Field Should colleges know when a student takes the SAT untimed?
  Arthur Allen May 16, 2006
  
• Jolly Rogers Why are British men healthier than American ones?
  Sydney Spiesel May 15, 2006
  
• Sex, Science, and Static Pro-abstinence politics meddles with a CDC conference.
  Amanda Schaffer May 5, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month A cool new medical toy, music as pain relief, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel May 2, 2006
  
• All Smoke The FDA's statement on medical marijuana isn't about science.
  Sydney Spiesel April 24, 2006
  
• The Microbes Are Back What's behind the Midwest mumps outbreak.
  Arthur Allen April 20, 2006
  
• Drug Haze What do you learn when you compare one antidepressant to another?
  Sarah E. Richards April 18, 2006
  
• Chastity, M.D. Conservatives teach sex ed to medical students. Thanks, Congress.
  Amanda Schaffer April 11, 2006
  
• Deprive Yourself Will eating a low-cal diet make you live longer?
  Sydney Spiesel April 6, 2006
  
• Mummysitting My gory career as a plastic-surgery nurse.
  Alex Heard April 4, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month Antibiotics and asthma, Caesarean sections, the latest on bird-flu vaccine, and more.
  Sydney Spiesel April 4, 2006
  
• What's a Nervous Breakdown? Hint: Italy's wacky Silvio Berlusconi isn't having one.
  Jeff Merron March 31, 2006
  
• Tales From the Nursery The health benefits of breast-feeding may not be what you think.
  Sydney Spiesel March 27, 2006
  
• Home Is Where the Heart Is Healthy Why immigration makes you sick.
  Arthur Allen March 8, 2006
  
• The Medical Tourist Returns Yoga treatment in India.
  Laura Moser March 7, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month Low-fat diets, whether chills cause colds, and drinking the eggs of pig whipworms.
  Sydney Spiesel Feb. 28, 2006
  
• Should You Stop Taking Calcium? Why doctors' old habits die hard.
  Sydney Spiesel Feb. 21, 2006
  
• Pharmanoia Coming to a clinical trial near you.
  Jon Cohen Feb. 21, 2006
  
• Or Not To Snip? Slate's findings on circumcision and sex.
  Emily Bazelon Feb. 13, 2006
  
• On the Matter of Size The inexact science of penis measurement.
  Kent Sepkowitz  Feb. 13, 2006
  
• Forget the Chicken and the Egg A better way to make flu vaccine.
  Marc Siegel Feb. 7, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month The new fat pill, why bubble bath gets a bad rap, and whether cough syrup deserves one.
  Sydney Spiesel Jan. 31, 2006
  
• Congratulations, You've Been Upgraded What I learned from my medical-insurance victory.
  Whitney Morrill Jan. 24, 2006
  
• Your Health This Month SIDS prevention, a vaccine for cervical cancer, and a new treatment for kidney stones.
  Sydney Spiesel Jan. 2, 2006