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Cocaine Effects on Brain Genes Could Help Treat Addicts
It’s hardly a secret that taking cocaine can change the way you feel and the way you behave.
How We Get Addicted
I was driving up the Massachusetts Turnpike one evening last February when I knocked over a bottle of water.
How Much Does Animal Testing Tell Us?
Not a week goes by without news of a lab breakthrough using rats or mice.
Fighting A Crippler
Imagine what it must be like to stroll down a street and then suddenly lurch like a drunkard. To see double images of a coffee cup, a friend’s face, a newspaper.
Medicine: Alzheimer’s Rise
Reports about the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease seem almost as inexorable as the illness. Each new survey appears to uncover a higher incidence of this wasting affliction of the mind
China Tiger Deaths Spark Inquiry, Calls for Animal Rights
It is an irony not lost on the Chinese public that the Year of the Tiger has not been good for the big cats.
Beyond the Call of Duty
Regardless of what we feel about the war in Iraq, most Americans feel a deep connection to the men and women in uniform who are there fighting for us.
Should Emergency Departments Turn Away Nonurgent Patients?
A few weeks ago, the American College of Emergency Physicians launched a campaign to derail proposed policies to reduce the use of emergency departments .
What Happens When We Die?
A fellow at New York City’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, Dr. Sam Parnia is one of the world’s leading experts on the scientific study of death