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Views Archive     Friendly Fire 10/18/00 Some Are More Equal than Others  Is medicine racist? Debating the question takes skepticism and a strong ego 9/20/00 Contagious Coronaries  Do bacteria cause heart disease? Join our experts for a debate 8/23/00 The Replacements  Our experts wade through the evidence on HRT: estrogen, cancer, heart disease, and yams 8/23/00 Sidebar: Botanicals Prescribed for Menopause Symptoms 7/26/00 A Spoonful of Sugar  Drs. Sternberg, Brody, and Brown on the placebo response 7/12/00 Make Love, Not War: A New Approach to Epidemics  What can we do to turn the tide on emerging infectious diseases? Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg and colleagues discuss 6/28/00 The Curse: To Bleed or Not to Bleed  Drs. Coutinho and Hutcherson exchange fire on how to treat the monthly visitor   The Ethicist, by Faith McLellan 6/27/01 Withholding treatment? Tobacco in academia? Journal editors cop out, turfing tough questions to readers 3/21/01 A flap over sex selection, back-door euthanasia, and medical error spell something rotten in the state of Britain 2/7/01 What business do doctors have presiding over sideshows and stunts? 11/29/00 Is it enough to disclose financial interests after the research is finished? 10/18/00 Walking a high wire to choose an embryo for its genetic traits, and sacrifice one life to save another 9/6/00 On cheaters and killers in the medical profession 7/26/00 Immunization or else; 9 standards for clinical ethics consultations 6/28/00 The Emanuel Report on ethical standards; research under fire in Croatia   This Week with... 1/30/02 Ivan Oransky, MD, comes to praise cesareans, not to argue against them 1/23/02 Simeon Margolis, MD, on protecting against kidney stones and heart disease 1/16/02 Ivan Oransky, MD, chooses between Advil and Vioxx 1/8/02 Gerald Weissmann, MD, wonders if pig transplants will fly, and if Dolly didn't bring arthritis on herself 12/20/01 Ivan Oransky, MD, says that with breast cancer, the more things change, the more they remain the same 12/12/01 Simeon Margolis, MD, wonders if statins are the new aspirin 12/5/01 Ivan Oransky, MD, asks, "Would you like a statin with that?" 11/28/01 Gerald Weissmann, MD, begs and pleads for someone--anyone--to use new drugs for anthrax 11/20/01 Ivan Oransky, MD, on medical errors: better penmanship could save lives 11/14/01 Simeon Margolis, MD, evaluates HRT, a therapy plagued by links to cancer and heart disease 11/7/01 Ivan Oransky, MD, says don't abuse Cipro, get a flu shot instead 10/31/01 Gerald Weissmann, MD, asks, why are we ignoring two potential treatments for anthrax?       more >>   The Spin Doctor, by Ivan Oransky 2/21/01 Castles Made of Sand  When mighty journals do battle, readers lose 1/10/01 The Centuriennes  A journal's centennial marks, and makes, history for nursing 11/29/00 The Deniers' Club  Guns don't kill, and neither does AIDS, according to some commentators 11/1/00 Almost Famous  Broadcasting celebrity illness as a way of galvanizing public health often means oversimplifying treatment 8/23/00 Scares and Flares in News Coverage  Sometimes, media reports on health scares can lead to real dangers 7/26/00 Meds in (Cyber)Space  We talk to Medscape's George Lundberg about virtual peer review 7/11/00 Malpractice on Millions  You don't have to be an MD to play one on TV, by Scott Gottlieb 6/28/00 Department of Corrections  Changing your mind is easy for medical writers   Short Take 5/30/01 Cold Comfort  Is pleconaril a cure for the common cold? Do we really need one? 4/19/01 Stars and Gripes  Should medical historians convene their annual meeting under the Confederate flag? 2/21/01 Why Health Care Needs Faith-Based Initiatives  Should church and state join forces to give medicine a helping hand? A doctor at Duke says the Bush plan is a good idea

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