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Bali’s Travel Boom: ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ Tourism
Updated: Aug. 10, 2010.
Adult Obesity Linked with Traumatic Childhood Experiences
Dr. Vincent Felitti, founder of Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine and director of its obesity-treatment program, was seeing some good results
Pillow Angel Ethics
What kind of doctors would agree to intentionally shorten and sterilize a disabled six-year-old girl to make it easier for her parents to take care of her? The question has had message boards steaming for days, but the answers are in no way easy.
Exercise Can Counteract Obesity Genes, Says Study
Some families, alas, are fatter than others. But for dieters continually at war with their genes, there’s good news in a study published in this week’s PLoS Medicine: they can burn off 40% of their genetic predisposition to obesity by exercising.
The Alternative Jesus: Psychedelic Christ
WANTED JESUS CHRIST ALIAS: THE MESSIAH, THE SON OF GOD, KING OF KINGS, LORD OF LORDS, PRINCE OF PEACE, ETC. > Notorious leader of an underground liberation movement > Wanted for the following charges: —Practicing medicine, winemaking and food distribution without a license.
Oral Sex Can Add to HPV Cancer Risk
Oral sex can get most men’s attention. The topic becomes considerably more relevant, however, when coupled with a new study linking the human papillomavirus to an increased risk of a kind of oral cancer more often seen in men.
How Veterans’ Hospitals Became the Best in Health Care
Most private hospitals can only dream of the futuristic medicine Dr. Divya Shroff practices today
Drug Tourism: Down the Amazon in Search of Ayahuasca
Although his parents urged him to study medicine, Jimmy Weiskopf dropped out of college and in the 1970s moved to Colombia, where he eventually began to focus on a different kind of elixir.
Crush of cancer, medical bills snares family
Leslie Elder’s eyelids fluttered open, and through the fog of pain medication, she saw the emergency room doctors pull back the curtain in her room. She could tell that the news was bad