Health
Diabetes Drug Backed, but With Warnings
A federal drug advisory committee voted to recommend that the diabetes drug Avandia remain on the market, despite finding that it raised the risks of heart attacks. Read more…
Books: A Beginning Doctor Dissects Her Way Toward Understanding
Christine Montross has tethered an earnest and readable reflection on the process of becoming a doctor to the dissection of a human cadaver. Read more…
Personal Health: In Matters of the Heart, Prevention Is Key
Coronary death rates are falling, but not fast enough. Read more…
Really? : The Claim: Chewing Gum After a Meal Can Prevent Heartburn
The list of ideas for easing heartburn is long and filled with home remedies, many unproved. Read more…
Study of Child Abuse in Military Families
A study financed by the Pentagon found that mothers in Army families were about twice as likely to physically abuse them when their soldier husbands were deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more…
Force-Feeding of Prisoners Is Questioned
Military doctors violate medical ethics when they approve the force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guant?namo Bay, according to a commentary. Read more…
California: Doctor Denies Hastening Death
The lawyer for a surgeon charged with prescribing excessive drugs to a disabled patient to speed up his death says his client has been the subject of a ?witch hunt.? Read more…
World Briefing | Asia: Dengue Fever Sweeps Southeast Asia
The World Health Organization has warned that the region could face the worst outbreak of the mosquito-borne virus in nearly a decade. Read more…
Nicotine Addiction Is Quick in Youths, Research Finds
A young cigarette smoker can begin to feel powerful desires for nicotine within two days of first inhaling, new research suggests. Read more…
A Baby-Proof Method Tracks Just Where Little Ones Look
New technology makes it easier to follow a baby?s gaze and to decipher the developing mind by looking at infants? eye movements. Read more…
