Health and Disease

The Doctor Stories The Doctor Stories

Atul Gawande offers up a banal self-help manual for aspiring MDs, while Pauline Chen prescribes a dose of compassion.

May 24, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lizzy Ratner

Body Language Body Language

A new "ethnic correctness" is taking hold among minorities that might reverse a rising trend among Asians and others to undergo plastic surgery to look more westernized.

Mar 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Andrew Lam

How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits How Specialist Town Lost His Benefits

Wounded soldiers returning from Iraq are increasingly being wrongly diagnosed by the military, which prevents them from collecting benefits.

Mar 29, 2007 / Feature / Joshua Kors

Who’s Afraid of Gardasil? Who’s Afraid of Gardasil?

A medical breakthrough has provoked opposition from conservatives, consumer advocates and antivaccine groups.

Mar 8, 2007 / Feature / Karen Houppert

Dying for a Home Dying for a Home

The shoddy construction of FEMA's trailers has led to an epidemic of respiratory illness among Katrina refugees.

Feb 14, 2007 / Feature / Amanda Spake

A Burnt-Out Case A Burnt-Out Case

A new biography of Timothy Leary reveals the mixed-up sociopath behind the "turn on, tune in, drop out" mantra.

Jul 27, 2006 / Books & the Arts / Neal Pollack

The False Bird Flu Scare The False Bird Flu Scare

The United States has fueled a worldwide overreaction to the threat of a bird flu pandemic, putting AIDS, malaria, malnutrition and other crucial global health programs at risk.

May 18, 2006 / Dr. Marc Siegel

Don’t Blame Environmentalists for Malaria Don’t Blame Environmentalists for Malaria

Tina Rosenberg is wrong to argue in the New York Times that environmentalists who fought to limit the use of DDT have contributed to the worldwide spread of malaria.

Mar 31, 2006 / Feature / Sonia Shah

Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest Avian Flu Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Large factory farms, not migratory birds, are now seen as breeding grounds for the avian flu virus. Donald Rumsfeld is getting rich off his investment in Tamiflu. Can this pandemic...

Mar 28, 2006 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman

Government’s the Problem Government’s the Problem

Complicated drug plans are the result of promises fulfilled.

Feb 9, 2006 / Column / Calvin Trillin

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