Vitamin Giants: The Sequel Vitamin Giants: The Sequel
Price-fixing fines behind them, the firms are close to achieving a monopoly.
Jun 20, 2002 / Feature / Jock Ferguson
Anthrax and the Military Anthrax and the Military
The Pentagon's recent decision to limit anthrax vaccine shots to those at high risk does not address the fundamental objection to the shots, which is the lack of informed consent....
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Mary L. Cummings
Globalizing Clinical Research Globalizing Clinical Research
Big Pharma tries out First World drugs on unsuspecting Third World patients.
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Sonia Shah
The Shame of Prison Health The Shame of Prison Health
Just-released inmates with infectious diseases need continuous treatment.
Jun 13, 2002 / Feature / Sasha Abramsky
A New Horizon for the Democratic Party A New Horizon for the Democratic Party
Speech to The Democratic National Committee--Western Caucus Saturday, May 25, 2002 Seattle, Washington
Jun 3, 2002 / Dennis Kucinich
Attack of the Anti-Cloners Attack of the Anti-Cloners
In the past two months I have talked with many people who have a keen interest in whether the Senate will decide to ban therapeutic cloning. At a conference at a Philadelphia hosp...
May 30, 2002 / Arthur L. Caplan
Stephen Jay Gould Stephen Jay Gould
When the Kansas Board of Education voted in 1999 to remove the teaching of evolution from the state's science curriculum, most thinking Americans groaned about the growing influen...
May 30, 2002 / John Nichols
Fighting the Drug (Ad) Wars Fighting the Drug (Ad) Wars
As corporations push new medicines, sound and affordable healthcare suffers.
May 30, 2002 / Feature / Dr. Marc Siegel
US and Evil Axis–Allies for Abstinence US and Evil Axis–Allies for Abstinence
President Dubya loves to crusade against the "axis of evil" in his war on terrorism--but he formed an unholy alliance with the countries that make up the "axis" to declare war on...
May 16, 2002 / Feature / Doug Ireland
Racial Prescriptions Racial Prescriptions
A recent front-page story in the Boston Globe proclaimed that New England leads the nation in Ritalin prescription levels. Somewhat to my surprise, the prevalence of Ritalin in...
May 16, 2002 / Column / Patricia J. Williams