AltWeeklies Wire
What Can We Learn from Traditional Healers and Indigenous Plants?new
In the fight against AIDS, a professor pays a visit to some African witch doctors.
Walter Witschey Is Having the Time of His Lifenew
The bespectacled director of the Science Museum of Virginia is about to retire -- but his other life as a rattlesnake-dodging, jungle-searching Maya archaeologist is just starting to take off.
Style Weekly |
Richard Foster |
03-15-2007 |
Science
Tags: science museum, Walter Witschey
Universal Healthcare in Illinois?new
A pound of cure: Gov. Rod Blagojevich's prescription for universal healthcare coverage offers hope to desperate Illinoisans, but some worry about the side effects.
Illinois Times |
R.L. Nave |
03-15-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Shot or Not? The Battle Over the HPV Vaccinenew
It sounds like a wonder drug, and no one argues with the vaccine's potential -- but not everyone is sure about the speedy move by Florida lawmakers to force parents to vaccinate or file a waiver by the time their daughters turn 12.
Orlando Weekly |
Deanna Sheffield |
03-13-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Gardasil Still Eludes Menew
For the last four months I've been trying to get vaccinated with Gardasil, which got the FDA's stamp of approval early last summer and is nearly 100 percent effective in preventing four strains of HPV, two of which cause 70 percent of cervical cancer cases. So far, no luck.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Cassidy Hartmann |
03-12-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Food Flunkiesnew
Europe's flirting with charging public officials for failing to protect folks from rising obesity. Should we?
NOW Magazine |
Wayne Roberts |
03-09-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Bad Medicinenew
An N.C. doctor is indicted for drug trafficking three years after a mother and son committed suicide with drugs from an online pill mill.
Creative Loafing (Charlotte) |
Karen Shugart |
03-08-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
White's Anatomynew
A respected neurosurgeon reflects on life, love and monkey head transplants.
Cleveland Free Times |
James Renner |
03-07-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Raw Dealnew
Notes from the Amish dairy underground.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michelle Gienow |
03-07-2007 |
Science
The Power of Half a Brainnew
To live relatively normal lives, these children must give up something most of us can't imagine.
Tags: Health & Science
The ACT UP Oral History Projectnew
Veteran AIDS warrior Sarah Schulman remembers fighters passed.
Montreal Mirror |
Patrick Lejtenyi |
03-02-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Politics of Tobacconew
The Mississippi Legislature is split between loyalty to Gov. Haley Barbour -- and big tobacco -- and opinion polls showing overwhelming support for cigarette taxes.
Jackson Free Press |
Adam Lynch |
02-28-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Filling in the Blanksnew
Profs make big discovery in Alzheimer's research.
C-Ville Weekly |
Jayson Whitehead |
02-21-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
That Is Highnew
Medical marijuana smokers face a 1,000-percent increase in cost of a California ID card.
Tags: Health & Science
A Hard Placenew
Lindsey Purkett could die of anorexia because she can't find treatment for the uninsured.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Michael de Yoanna |
02-08-2007 |
Science
