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Who's Making Our Medicine?new

To treat everything from allergies to heart problems, half of Americans take a prescription medicine every day. It’s perfectly safe, though, because the Food and Drug Administration regulates the ingredients, right?
The Texas Observer  |  Jim Hightower  |  03-12-2009  |  Science

The Fight Over What Is -- And What Is Not -- Lyme Diseasenew

The deer ticks that carry Lyme disease are tiny. But from these minute creatures, a huge, unresolved medical controversy has grown: Does chronic Lyme disease exist? If so, how is it treated? If not, what's making so many people so very sick?
Portland Phoenix  |  Deirdre Fulton  |  09-17-2008  |  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

Seabiscuit Should Be So Luckynew

Just call them the Horse Pressurers: This new breed of equine healer does acupressure, massage, the holistic works, and often runs on ambiguous legal turf.
East Bay Express  |  Kara Platoni  |  06-27-2005  |  Science

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