AltWeeklies Wire
72-Year-Old Woman Chooses Radical Therapy to Fight Cancernew
At a dead end with mainstream medicine, a woman with inoperable cancer turns to alternative and natural remedies developed by German physician Max Gerson in the late 1920s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
05-12-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
PC Home Theatrenew
Hollywood will soon be rolling out its summer blockbusters to wow us with impressive cinematics and thundering THX sound. But why go to the movies for sensory overload when you can get the same experience at your computer?
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Donlin |
05-11-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Skirmishes in Ohio's War on Natural Healthnew
Ski-masked cops rushed into the office of a man who claims to do mechanotherapy and arrested him for allegedly practicing chiropractic without a license. Such aggressive tactics have pushed natural-health providers underground.
Cleveland Scene |
Chris Maag |
05-11-2005 |
Science
Sleeping on Back Gives Some Babies Misshapen Headsnew
To avoid Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, pediatricians have said babies should sleep on their backs. An unintended and sometimes harmful consequence is that more children are developing flattened skulls.
Phoenix New Times |
Sarah Fenske |
05-11-2005 |
Science
iPod Accoutrementsnew
Clumsy, trendy and audiophilic iPod owners rejoice: Now you can keep your cherished slab of digital love safe from crackups, fashion emergencies and wussy bass.
Dig Boston |
Seth McM. Donlin |
05-05-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Star in a Jar?new
Miracle or pipe-dream? A working nuclear-fusion reactor uses bubbles to produce power at a fraction of today's energy costs and creates almost no pollution.
Sacramento News & Review |
Cosmo Garvin |
04-29-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Allocating Medicare Funds to Georgia Proves to be Lopsided Balancing Actnew
Drastic federal Medicaid cuts have forced Georgia and other states to reallocate Medicaid funds. A critic says the result is a loss of access to some of Medicaid's most effective services.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
04-21-2005 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Doing a First Breast and Pelvic Examnew
A second-year medical student learns how to do a breast and pelvic exam from the professionally trained woman he's examining.
The Village Voice |
Jules Lipoff |
04-20-2005 |
Science
DNA Labs Answer Genealogical Questionsnew
DNA consulting companies can help people unearth their ancestry by identifying their genetic groups, but the field has the potential to become a racket, peddling bogus pasts instead of fortune-telling's fake futures.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
04-18-2005 |
Science
Pacemaker Company Targets Mood Disordersnew
Cyberonics, which has implanted its pacemaker in thousands of epileptics, wants to expand to the depression market. Still needed: an accounting of those who died or were injured after receiving its implant.
Houston Press |
Craig Malisow |
04-11-2005 |
Science
21-Year-Old Takes On Microsoftnew
For the past four months, David Zamos has been fighting four Microsoft attorneys who claim he violated trademark and copyright laws by selling two unopened pieces of software on eBay for $203.50.
Cleveland Scene |
Denise Grollmus |
04-08-2005 |
Science
Xanga.com Cuts to the Heart of High School Darknessnew
Xanga.com software has become the blogging system of choice for the underage. On hyperpersonalized Web pages, teens obsess about suicide and sex and take the opportunity to harass each other.
Blue Cross Sues Over 'Rent-a-Patient' Scamnew
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is suing nine California clinics and 21 doctors it accuses of performing unnecessary surgery on patients who were paid to participate in the scam.
Phoenix New Times |
Paul Rubin |
04-08-2005 |
Science
Georgia Pharmacists Can Refuse to Fill Birth Control Prescriptionsnew
Georgia pharmacists can refuse to fill morning-after and birth control prescriptions if such medication violates their personal or religious beliefs. What's more, in the next legislative session there could be a warmer reception for a bill backing a pharmacist's right to refuse morning-after pills.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alyssa Abkowitz |
04-07-2005 |
Science
Tags: morning-after, pill
Survival of the Fittest Beliefsnew
"Intelligent Design" takes the place of the defeated creationism in the latest rematch in the heavyweight culture war.
