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My Aching Back
The back is an intricate structure of bones, muscles, and other tissues that form the posterior part of the body’s…
The Placebo Effect
To test new drugs, researchers usually divide their subjects into two groups. One group receives the experimental drug.…
SARS: Mother Nature Strikes Again!
SARS, short for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, is big news this spring. By the middle of April 2003, over 2000…
Who was Typhoid Mary?
Mary Mallon lived in New York about 100 years ago, and worked as a cook. It seemed that every family she worked for…
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- A Little OCD In Me And Thee?
- Eating Disorders
- Encephalitis and Meningitis
- How Much Coffee Will Kill You?
- Is Heartburn a Heart Burn?
- It's Hay Fever Season!
- The Incredible Capacity Of The Immune System
- The Placebo Effect
- There's No Such Thing as a Safe Suntan
- What is Asthma?
- What Is Autism?
- What is Headache?
- What Is High Blood Pressure?
- What Is Narcolepsy?
- What's So Bad About Cholesterol?
- Why Is Blood Pressure Two Numbers?
- Your Friend, the Fat Cell