Ask Dr. Marc Ask Dr. Marc
How many of you believe that crucial healthcare issues are falsely represented by corporate America for profit or political advantage?
Nov 11, 2002 / Feature / Dr. Marc Siegel
Can Coke Prevent AIDS? Can Coke Prevent AIDS?
As one of the largest private employers in Africa, the Coca-Cola Company could dramatically alter the course of HIV/AIDS.
Oct 24, 2002 / Feature / Lisa Weinert
Sowing Disaster? Sowing Disaster?
How genetically engineered American corn has altered the global landscape.
Oct 10, 2002 / Feature / Mark Schapiro
The Laboratories of Democracy The Laboratories of Democracy
Nothing is more galling to scientists than outsiders questioning their research priorities.
Oct 10, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Jonathan Kimmelman
A Cancer Grows A Cancer Grows
Medical treatment in women's prisons ranges from brutal to nonexistent.
Sep 11, 2002 / Feature / Cynthia Cooper
The Women’s Enron The Women’s Enron
The recent news about the harmful effects of hormone replacement was played in the media as a health story, but it is much more than that. In fact, it may be the hot-flashiest cor...
Aug 15, 2002 / Sue Woodman
Big Pharma, Bad Science Big Pharma, Bad Science
In June, the New England Journal of Medicine, one of the most respected medical journals, made a startling announcement.
Jul 25, 2002 / Feature / Nathan Newman
Sex, Morality and AIDS Sex, Morality and AIDS
At the fourteenth international AIDS conference, the gulf between the United States and the rest of the world widened as US officials touted policies that world health experts agr...
Jul 18, 2002 / Jordan Lite
Too Much Monkey Business Too Much Monkey Business
I received the news of paleontologist and popular science writer Stephen Jay Gould's death, at age 60, in the week I was reading Jonathan Marks's new book on genetics, human evolu...
Jun 20, 2002 / Books & the Arts / Micaela di Leonardo