Archive
2003 Columns
12/19/03
 So shy you could die
12/11/03
Flamingly high blood pressure
12/3/03
Fight fat with a doc by your side? Get your back up as a kid
11/26/03
Better futures for preemies
11/20/03
New autism initiative; foreign accent syndrome
11/13/03
Testosterone therapy; vitamin "eye" can save sight
10/30/03
Worry and wound healing
10/23/03
Too many breast biopsies for women; Too few kidney treatments for blacks
10/16/03
Foretelling heart failure
10/9/03
Stroke and smog; sleep strengthens memory
10/3/03
The impact of high blood pressure: salt and stress and "senior moments"
9/24/03
Predicting when a woman's heart will break
9/17/03
A lousy situation for kids
9/3/03
Closing up the ER; antibiotics and ear infections
8/28/03
Staying in the walking habit; blacks have more heart risk but less care
8/7/03
Helping kids deal with violence; the real hormone replacement story
7/30/03
Tight ties and bad eyes; demanding patients get results
7/23/03
Your parents and your heart risk; soothing hormones for ulcers
7/17/03
Pricey bed covers don't stop allergies; why visiting a hospital can make you sick
7/10/03
Inflamed hearts have diet trouble; cold shoulder for a hot-flash treatment
7/2/03
Docs who raise your blood pressure; caregivers lose immunity
6/26/03
Too much toothbrushing; benefits of backwards CPR
6/19/03
Herbal headaches; depressing treatment for heart attacks
6/10/03
The viruses of summer: SARS on the wane, monkeypox on the rise, and West Nile is back
6/4/03
Puffing your way to a sick baby, and a simple pill that could produce a healthy one
5/28/03
Getting the most from exercise–even after you stop
5/21/03
Dangers of secondhand smoke–and secondhand research
5/15/03
Better blood pressure guidelines; patching kids' vision problems in less time
5/9/03
Predicting when cancer will spread–and when it will come back
4/23/03
Less fat, fewer injuries for runners; a heavy cancer risk; stem cells boost failing hearts
4/17/03
Weakened bones from weight-loss surgery; free asthma screenings; SARS virus identified
4/9/03
Dangers of nighttime babysitting; a little help for weight loss
3/3/03
Alzheimer's hope versus Alzheimer's hype
3/26/03
Smallpox-vaccine warning for heart patients; The truth about misleading echinacea labels
3/20/03
When hormone replacement can and can't help women; the latest on the mystery Asian illness; new help for Gulf War syndrome
3/12/03
A new kind of heart transplant; peanut allergy help; Viagra gets a challenger
3/5/03
An aspirin a day keeps colon cancer away; Organic veggies are better disease fighters
3/1/03
Laboring under cerebral palsy misconceptions; OxyContin abuse overstated
2/20/03
The feeling of a healthful workout; Lung cancer vaccines; How estrogen helps women's pain
2/12/03
A lot of bad reactions to wheat
2/6/03
How sugar rots the brain and memory; fewer baseball injuries for kids
1/30/03
Why women don't exercise, and how they can get started
1/23/03
Supersizing your food and body; for blood-pressure drugs, timing is everything
1/15/03
A new way to beat the rising cost of prescriptions
1/8/03
Does taking stimulants at an early age set kids up for substance abuse later in life?
1/2/03
Trapping multiple sclerosis and other diseases
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