AltWeeklies Wire
Body Wisdomnew
Do your muscles know what you should and shouldn't eat?
Seven Days |
Corin Hirsch |
06-02-2011 |
Science
Ticked Off About Lyme Diseasenew
Lyme disease can mean severe pain for patients and legal headaches for physicians.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
06-28-2010 |
Science
Tags: Lyme Disease
A Professor Investigates Africa’s Most Dreaded Disease: Malarianew
At first glance, UVM assistant professor Arne Bomblies seems like an unlikely person to be conducting research on malaria, an illness that kills more than a million people worldwide each year, most of them African children, at a rate of one every 30 seconds.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
01-22-2010 |
Science
University of Vermont Faces a Decline in Body Donationsnew
The declining number of donors may be related to the cost associated with giving one's body to medical science. Although UVM absorbs nearly all the expenses, transportation costs are still incurred by the next of kin. In tough economic times, that expense may be too much for some Vermonters to shoulder.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
10-30-2009 |
Science
Vermont Health Commissioner Isn't Sweating Swine Flunew
The combination of a deadly new bug and the erosion of resources for her department will test the public-health and managerial chops of Wendy Davis, the state's No. 1 health officer.
Seven Days |
Kevin J. Kelley |
05-22-2009 |
Science
Off the Chartsnew
Hospital admissions and lengths of stay vary widely in Vermont, and a new report asks why.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
02-08-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
How I Put My Back into Chiropracticnew
A chiropractor? I'd never been to one, but I thought, I guess they're the docs to help with back trouble, right?
Seven Days |
Meghan Dewald |
01-18-2008 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Buzz Kill?new
Life is sweet for Vermont's pollinators, but their days may be numbered.
Seven Days |
Mike Ives |
05-04-2007 |
Science
Physician-Assisted-Death Bill Brings Out Advocates and Foesnew
State legislature heads for a showdown on a bill that would permit terminally ill Vermonters to end their lives with the help of their doctors.
Seven Days |
Kevin J. Kelley |
03-26-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Mandatory HPV Vaccine for Schoolgirls? Not Nownew
Vaccinating sixth-grade girls appears unlikely to be voted on by Vermont lawmakers before they adjourn this spring.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
03-02-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Are You Choking?new
The Red Cross has determined that there's no evidence the Heimlich maneuver works better than back blows.
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
11-24-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Swan Songnew
Vermont's hospice choruses deliver deathbed serenades.
Seven Days |
Cathy Resmer |
11-09-2006 |
Science
Medicine Womennew
An infux of female doctors is changing the way health care is delivered.
Seven Days |
Mary Hegarty Nowlan |
06-16-2006 |
Science
Smoked Outnew
Could the feds snuff out a Vermonter's medical marijuana?
Seven Days |
Ken Picard |
05-24-2006 |
Science
Tags: Medical Marijuana, pot
House, and Senate, Callsnew
Lobbyists are doctoring the health care debate in Vermont.
Seven Days |
Jon Margolis |
04-07-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
