Illness, Injury & Treatments

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

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Wired September 21, 2009 Brendan I. Koerner	Jamie Heywood: Forget Medical Privacy Jamie Heywood hopes consumers will in turn share medical data with one another via online communities such as PatientsLikeMe, which will anonymize the data and sell it to medical researchers and drug developers.
Popular Mechanics September 24, 2009 Chris Sweeney	The 7 Best First Aid Kits For Any Situation For the home, on the go, and for your pets.
Wired September 21, 2009 Mathew Honan	Ludwig Minelli: Legalize Assisted Suicide Taking advantage of his nation's unique legal status, attorney Ludwig Minelli founded Dignitas, a right-to-die organization that has made Switzerland the destination for suicide tourism. Not that he's eager for more business.
Wired September 21, 2009 Thomas Goetz	Ralph Keeney: Cheat Death Keeney, a decision analyst at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, crunched data from the Centers for Disease Control to assess how many deaths in the US are due to personal choices -- things like smoking, overeating, or unsafe sex.
AskMen.com	Vaccine Helps Prevent HIV For the first time, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection with the AIDS virus, a watershed event in the deadly epidemic and a surprising result.
AskMen.com Jacob Franek	How Much Sleep Do We Really Need? We ultimately attempt to answer, once and for all: How much sleep do we really need? First, however, it's important to understand how much sleep we're currently getting.
Popular Mechanics September 23, 2009 Harry Sawyers	Toxic Shower-Head Hysteria: Reality Check Vincent LaBombardi, the director of microbiology at New York's Mount Sinai Medical Center says, "you shouldn't be ripping out the pipes over this."
Health September 21, 2009 Sarah Klein	20 Medical Mysteries and Miracles The man who survived a 500-foot fall. The twin who lived inside his brother's belly for three decades. The toddler who doesn't age.
Wired October 2009 Drake Bennett	Thorkil Sonne: Recruit Autistics Autistics were born to be software engineers.
Health September 21, 2009	How to Tell Your Doctor About Your Embarrassing Problems Go ahead, try to make our medical editor Dr. Raj blush.
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