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Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Oct 10, 2008
"The fault," writes Shakespeare in Julius Caesar, "is not in our stars, but in ourselves." According to Harvard Medical School researchers, though, Shakespeare's statement of free will was all wrong—at least with …
Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Sep 12, 2008
Perhaps you've heard about the guy who is wrecking the American health care system. He is uninsured, has no major medical problems, and loves the emergency room. He is said to stroll in about once a month to various …
Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Aug 15, 2008
Early this summer, the American Medical Association voted to lobby Congress to permit the study of financial incentives for organ donation. With nearly 100,000 people on the national transplant list and 18 dying every …
Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Aug 13, 2008
Few things rankle doctors more than alternative (aka complementary, integrative, holistic, homeopathic, naturopathic) medicine. First came the misery inflicted by the ever-expanding celebrity of practitioners like …
Slate Magazine - Jul 24, 2008
Last month, Esmin Green, a 49-year-old mother of six, tumbled off her chair and onto the floor of the Kings County psychiatric E.R. waiting room in New York City. Members of the hospital staff saw her lying there but …
Slate Magazine - Jul 8, 2008
Smells are surer than sights and sounds to make your heart-strings crack.—Rudyard Kipling [more ...]
Slate Magazine - Jul 3, 2008
According to sex-difference evangelist Louann Brizendine, women are like emotion-seeking F-15's, deciphering and responding to other people's feelings and needs. By contrast, it's "only when men actually see tears that …
Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Jul 1, 2008
If there's one question we never tire of, it's whether men and women speak or feel or think in fundamentally different ways. Do women talk more than men? Are their brains hard-wired for empathy? Can innate differences …
Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Jun 17, 2008
According to a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Times, four members of the yakuza, the Japanese mafia, received liver transplants at the UCLA medical center between 2000 and 2004. Two of the four men later gave …
Slate Magazine - Medical Examiner - Jun 13, 2008
When I told my friends I had found a way to transform myself into a morning person, they responded in one of two ways. The night people leaned in as if I were about to reveal the location of a stash of pirate gold. The …