Illness, Injury & Treatments

Magazine articles on illnesses, injuries, currently available treatments, drugs, and homeopathy.

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AskMen.com	Adventures In Circumcision The most powerful force against AIDS in Africa may be circumcision, a procedure that's easily done in the developed world.
Popular Mechanics February 11, 2010 Adam Hadhazy	The Truth About 9 Anti-Vaccine Studies Led by celebrities such as Jenny McCarthy, the anti-vaccine movement continues to vehemently oppose mainstream science's overwhelming consensus that vaccines do not cause developmental disorders.
AskMen.com	Bored To Death In a commentary to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in April, experts say there's a possibility that the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early.
AskMen.com Ron Kotler	5 Ways Sleep Deprivation Can Kill You While training as a pulmonary fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, I became fascinated by patients who suffered from sleep-related breathing disorders.
Popular Mechanics February 5, 2010 Adam Hadhazy	Anti-Vaccination Groups Dealt Blow as Lancet Study is Retracted In what will likely be a big blow to the anti-vaccination movement, The Lancet medical journal has retracted the 1998 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield that originally sparked the uproar over whether vaccines are linked to autism.
Popular Mechanics February 2010 Dan Koeppel	How to Fall 35,000 Feet -- And Survive Stories of people who survived crashes and sky diving accidents.
Popular Mechanics January 29, 2010 Joe Hasler	5 Tales of Survival from Extreme Falls A trauma specialist says that while a fall from 20,000 feet sounds incredible, the extreme height makes little difference in these stories of survival.
Popular Mechanics January 28, 2010 Cassie Rodenberg	Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Fast Company February 2010 Kate Rockwood	An In-Depth Look at the Hospital of the Future The hospital of the future is designed not just to heal the sick but also to help sustain the environment.
BusinessWeek January 21, 2010 Rich Jaroslovsky	Web DNA Tests Offer Ease and Enlightenment A comparison of the often entertaining services of Navigenics, 23andMe, and deCODEme.
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