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28-29	November 2002 Readings/Article Hippocratic oafs SEE ALSO: Medicine; Slang PDF IMAGES
28-30	July 1997 Readings/Article A short history of cures By Robertson Davies SEE ALSO: Contributions in medicine; Groddeck, Georg; Medicine; Practice PDF IMAGES
26-29	July 1994 Readings/Article The scientist's urge for integers By Robert M. Sapolsky SEE ALSO: Medicine; Scientists PDF IMAGES
40	July 1986 Article Making the choice: 1873 SEE ALSO: Abortion; Medicine PDF IMAGES
4	March 1974 Wraparound/Article The outer world By Black Elk and John Gneisenau Neihardt SEE ALSO: Dakota Indians; Great Plains; Healing; Medicine PDF IMAGES
98-104	October 1967 Article The future of medical education By Oliver Cope SEE ALSO: Medical colleges; Medical education; Medicine; Medicine and psychology; Physician and patient; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
92-96	December 1964 Article What your doctor probably doesn't know about sex By Harold I. Lief SEE ALSO: Medicine; Physician and patient; Sex counseling; Sex therapy PDF IMAGES
75-77	January 1962 Article Prescriptions anonymous By Harold Jerome Harris SEE ALSO: Complications; Drugs; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medication abuse; Medicine; Physician and patient; Prescribing; Prescription writing PDF IMAGES
122-123	October 1960 Article Foreword By Marion K. Sanders SEE ALSO: Medical economics; Medicine; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
144-150	October 1960 Article Do you really want a family doctor? By David D. Rutstein SEE ALSO: Family medicine; Medical education; Medicine; Physicians (General practice); Specialties and specialists; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
153-157	October 1960 Article Medical research: Choked by dollars By John M. Russell SEE ALSO: Medical research personnel; Medicine; Supply and demand PDF IMAGES
73-77	October 1955 Article Alvarez: Everybody's family doctor By Greer Williams SEE ALSO: American newspapers; Career in medicine; Medicine; Physicians as authors; Sections, columns, etc.; Alvarez, Walter C. (Walter Clement) PDF IMAGES
50-53	May 1951 The easy chair/Article Spring clearance By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: Albert Gallatin and the Oregon problem (Book); American Medical Association; Merk, Frederick; From here to eternity (Book); Historiography; Jones, James; Medicine; Oregon question; Postage stamps; Postal service PDF IMAGES
56-60	January 1951 The easy chair/Article Letter to a family doctor By Bernard Augustine De Voto SEE ALSO: American Medical Association; Anti-communist movements; Antisemitism; Insurance, Health; Medical fees; Medicine; Physician and patient PDF IMAGES
36-39	April 1949 Article Why medicine is not a science By Ian Stevenson SEE ALSO: Medicine; Practice PDF IMAGES
277-287	February 1931 Article Specialists at large: An inquiry into certain aspects of medical practice By Dorothy Dunbar Bromley SEE ALSO: Malpractice; Medical ethics; Medical fees; Medicine; Specialties and specialists; Surgery, Unnecessary PDF IMAGES
260-262	January 1931 Personal and otherwise/Article Personal and otherwise SEE ALSO: Medicine; Specialties and specialists PDF IMAGES
710-719	November 1930 Article A patient looks at doctors SEE ALSO: Malpractice; Medical care, Cost of; Medical ethics; Medicine; Physician and patient; Physicians (General practice); Specialties and specialists PDF IMAGES
320-329	August 1930 Article The business of giving away money: The problem facing the American foundations By Edwin R. (Edwin Rogers) Embree SEE ALSO: Flexner, Abraham; Carnegie, Andrew; Art patronage; Career in philanthropy; Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations; Rockefeller, John D. (John Davison); Knowledge—Medical education; Medicine; Philanthropists; Rockefeller Foundation PDF IMAGES
50-56	December 1928 Article A family doctor speaks his mind By Wingate Memory Johnson SEE ALSO: Family medicine; Group medical practice; Medicine; Physician and patient; Physicians (General practice); Specialties and specialists PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 671-673	October 1920 The lion's mouth/Article Letters to certain people of importance: To a doctor By Winifred Margaretta Kirkland SEE ALSO: Medicine; Physician and patient; Vocational guidance PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 862-868	May 1918 Article The revival of antisepsis By Robert G. Skerrett SEE ALSO: Carrel, Alexis; Dakin, H.D.; Lister, Joseph Jackson; Knowledge—Antisepsis; Knowledge—Antiseptics; Medicine; Rockefeller Hospital (New York, New York); Surgery, Aseptic and antiseptic PDF IMAGES
406-411	February 1917 Article The war against pneumonia: Recent medical discoveries at Rockefeller Hospital By Burton Jesse Hendrick SEE ALSO: Environmental health; Health boards; Medicine; Prevention; Rockefeller Hospital (New York, New York) PDF IMAGES
25-32	June 1914 Article American contributions to medical science By Burton Jesse Hendrick SEE ALSO: Cancer; Indigestion; Insects as carriers of disease; Warren, John Collins; O'Dwyer, Joseph; Knowledge—Medicine; Medical research personnel; Medicine; Holmes, Oliver Wendell; Rous, Peyton; Treatment; Reed, Walter; Beaumont, William PDF IMAGES
259-262	July 1908 Article Recent discoveries in medicine By Moses Allen Starr SEE ALSO: Antitoxins; Brain; Diseases; Localization of functions; Medicine; Thyroid gland PDF IMAGES
38-52	June 1899 Article The century's progress in scientific medicine By Henry Smith Williams SEE ALSO: Anesthesiology; Lister, Joseph, Baron; Career in medical research; Long, Crawford Williamson; Diagnosis; Insects as carriers of disease; Pasteur, Louis; Medical innovations; Medicine; Microbiology; Portraits; Laennec, R. T. H. (René Théophile Hyacinthe); Virchow, Rudolf Ludwig Karl; Schwann, Theodor; Morton, William J. (William James); Corvisart des Marets, Jean Nicolas, baron PDF IMAGES
316-317	January 1893 Editor's study/Article — (III) By Charles Dudley Warner SEE ALSO: Medicine; Telegraph PDF IMAGES
644	September 1891 Editor's drawer/Article A complete cure SEE ALSO: Diagnosis; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine PDF IMAGES
439-444	February 1890 Article A majestic literary fossil By Mark Twain SEE ALSO: A medicinal dictionary; including physic, surgery, anatomy, chymistry, and botany, in all their branches relative to medicine. Together with a history of drugs (Book); Dictionaries; Homeopathic physicians; Homeopathy; Medicine; Quacks and quackery; James, R. (Robert) PDF IMAGES
807	October 1889 Editor's drawer/Article From the diary of a physician SEE ALSO: Errors of usage; Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine PDF IMAGES
722-729	April 1889 Article The family physician By Andrew Heermance Smith SEE ALSO: Medicine; Medicine, Preventive; Physician services utilization; Physicians (General practice); Specialties and specialists PDF IMAGES
162	June 1887 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Malpractice; Medicine PDF IMAGES
480	February 1877 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Care; Medicine; Mentally ill PDF IMAGES
70-84	June 1876 Article The first century of the republic. (Nineteenth paper.) Medical and sanitary progress By Austin Flint SEE ALSO: Medical education; Medicine; Public health; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
480	February 1872 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Medicine; Societies, etc. PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 157*	June 1869 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Medicine; Patent medicines PDF IMAGES
131-132	June 1867 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Formulae, receipts, prescriptions; Medicine PDF IMAGES
250-257	January 1867 Article Medical delusions of the olden time By James J. Belcher SEE ALSO: Medicine PDF IMAGES
403	February 1866 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Medicine; Terminology PDF IMAGES
565	March 1862 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Medicine; New Bedford PDF IMAGES
569	March 1860 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Medicine PDF IMAGES
861	May 1859 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Albany; Medicine PDF IMAGES
277-278	January 1856 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Advertising, Newspaper; Career in selling pills and ointments; Medicine; Newspaper editors; Holloway, Thomas PDF IMAGES
560	September 1852 Editor's drawer/Article Editor's drawer SEE ALSO: Examinations; Medicine PDF IMAGES

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April 1895

Literary notes/Review

Literary notes

By Laurence Hutton

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Dec 2006	Chances that a patient who undergoes weight-loss surgery will develop complications within six months: 2 in 5	Harper's Index Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (Rockville, Md.)
Sep 2006	Rank of AIDS and pregnancy, respectively, among the top causes of death worldwide for girls aged 10 to 19: 1,2	Harper's Index Source: World Health Organization (Geneva)
Sep 2006	Percentage of pharmaceutical trials in 1997 that were performed in the developing world: 3 Percentage today: 18	Harper's Index Source: Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (Boston)
Oct 2005	Percentage of patients hearing voices who hear a male voice, according to a British study: 71	Harper's Index Source: Tony Nayani and Anthony David, Kings College Hospital (London)
Oct 2005	Chances that a user of Pfizer’s new Parkinson’s disease drug will become a pathological gambler as a result: 3 in 200	Harper's Index Source: Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.)
Oct 2005	Percentage by which the average amount of anesthetic required by redheads exceeds the average for everyone: 19	Harper's Index Source: Daniel I. Sessler and Edwin B. Liem, University of Louisville
Oct 2005	Chance that a medical study may be inaccurate or misleading, according to the AMA’s journal: 1 in 3	Harper's Index Source: JAMA (Chicago)
Sep 2005	Amount allocated for investigating health-care fraud in 2003 that the FBI cannot account for : $114,000,000	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Government Accountability Office
Sep 2005	Minimum number of prescription drugs currently under investigation for Medicaid price-gouging or marketing fraud : 500	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Justice
Jul 2005	Percentage of Bill Frist’s medical-school class that sent him a letter accusing him of misusing his degree: 18	Harper's Index Source: Muriel Gillick, M.D. (Boston)
Jan 2004	Rank of rhinoplasty and liposuction among the most common plastic surgeries performed on men in the U.S. : 1, 2	Harper's Index Source: American Society of Plastic Surgeons (Arlington Heights, Ill.)
Jan 2004	Rank of rhinoplasty and penile enlargement among those most commonly performed on men in the U.K. : 2, 1	Harper's Index Source: The Harley Medical Group (London)
Dec 2003	Factor by which antibiotic treatment before the age of 6 months increases the chance of developing asthma by age 7: 2.6	Harper's Index Source: Henry Ford Health System (Detroit)
Nov 2003	Percentage change since 2000 in the number of U.S. surgeries performed each year to treat morbid obesity: +178	Harper's Index Source: American Society for Bariatric Surgery (Gainesville, Fla.)
Oct 2003	Estimated market value of the usable body parts of an adult human : $46,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Wired (San Francisco)
Jun 2003	Minimum number of chronic medical disorders linked to exposure to industrial chemicals: 110	Harper's Index Source: Natural Resources Defense Council (San Francisco)
May 2003	Percentage change since 1988 in the average subscription price of a U.S. scientific, medical, or technical journal: +250	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Mark J. McCabe, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
May 2003	Number of U.S. doctors per pharmaceutical-sales representative in 1995 and last year, respectively: 19, 9	Harper's Index Source: Verispan (Newtown, Pa.)/American Medical Association (Chicago)
Nov 2002	Maximum milligrams of speed prescribed to U.S. pilots by military doctors during the Persian Gulf War: 5	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Air Force Surgeon General (Washington)
Aug 2002	Chance that an American filing for bankruptcy last year did so because of medical expenses: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: Debs-Jones-Douglass Institute (Washington)
Jun 2002	Months after the building's inauguration in December that Israel used three U.S.-made missiles to destroy it: 2.5	Harper's Index Source: Amnesty International (London)/Harper's research
Feb 2002	Estimated number of appendectomies performed each year on Americans without appendicitis: 40,000	Harper's Index Source: University of Washington Medical Center (Seattle)
Aug 2001	Percentage change since 1998 in the amount Americans spend each year on prescription drugs: +40	Harper's Index Source: National Institute for Health Care Management (Washington)
Jun 2001	Number of medical scholarships that Cuba announced it would offer U.S. minorities next year: 500	Harper's Index Source: Congressional Black Caucus (Washington)
Apr 2001	Tons of antibiotics and antimicrobials given to healthy U.S. farm animals each year: 12,500	Harper's Index Source: Union of Concerned Scientists (Cambridge, Mass.)
Apr 2001	Chance that an American's Streptoccocus pneumoniae infection is resistant to penicillin: 1 in 4	Harper's Index Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta)
Feb 2001	Percentage of doctors at a New York City hospital who report often not knowing the cost of the drugs they prescribe: 80	Harper's Index Source: Dr. Ethan Halm, Mount Sinai School of Medicine (N.Y.C.)
Jan 2001	Number of British doctors who visited Cuba last March to study its health-care system: 115	Harper's Index Source: Conference Plus (Radlett, England)
Jan 2001	Chance that an American who visited an emergency room for a shuffleboard injury that year was a senior citizen: 1 in 2	Harper's Index Source: National Injury Information Clearinghouse (Washington)
Dec 2000	Number of American states in which physicians may legally prescribe clean needles to addicts: 48	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Scott Burris, Temple Law School (Philadelphia)
Dec 2000	Number of these states in which physicians may legally prescribe clean needles to addicts in which pharmacists may legally fill such prescriptions: 26	Harper's Index Source: Prof. Scott Burris, Temple Law School (Philadelphia)
Oct 2000	Average number of corpses per acre at the University of Tennessee's “body farm,” for the study of decomposition: 10	Harper's Index Source: University of Tennessee (Knoxville)
Mar 2000	Number of Parisians who break bones or are hospitalized each year after slipping on dog feces: 650	Harper's Index Source: Office of the Mayor (Paris)
Feb 2000	Ratio of the number of Americans killed in traffic accidents in 1998 to the number killed by medical errors: 1:1	Harper's Index Source: Institute of Medicine (Washington);
Feb 2000	Rank of self-inflicted wounds among the top injuries for which teenage girls were hospitalized in New York State in 1998: 1	Harper's Index Source: New York State Department of Health (Albany)
Feb 2000	Rank of assault among the top causes of injuries for which teenage boys were hospitalized in New York State in 1998: 1	Harper's Index Source: New York State Department of Health (Albany)
Jan 2000	Year in which a medical dictionary defined heterosexuality as an “abnormal or perverted appetite” for the opposite sex: 1901	Harper's Index Source: James R. Petersen, The Century of Sex, Grove Press (N.Y.C.)
Nov 1999	Change since 1987 in a household's annual spending on medical services, supplies, and drugs: -$99.69	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Department of Labor
Nov 1999	Percentage change since 1995 in the number of surgeons worldwide using maggots to cleanse wounds: +400	Harper's Index Source: Biosurgical Research Unit, Princess of Wales Hospital (South Wales, U.K.)
Oct 1999	Percentage of the 2.3 million gallons of blood Americans could donate each month that they actually do: 0.1	Harper's Index Source: American Association of Blood Banks (Bethesda, Md.)
Sep 1999	Average number of different drug prescriptions filled each year by an American over the age of 74: 12	Harper's Index Source: AARP (Washington)
Sep 1999	Pages of the British royal family's medical records found in a folder lying by the side of a Scottish road last March: 70	Harper's Index Source: Scottish Sun (Glasgow)
Aug 1999	Average number of Americans killed each week by prescription drugs: 1,900	Harper's Index Source: Food and Drug Administration (Rockville, Md.)
Aug 1999	Percentage of the medical supplies bought since 1996 under Iraq's oil-for-food program that has been distributed: 43	Harper's Index Source: U.N. Security Council (N.Y.C.)
Jul 1999	Chances that a U.S. Catholic hospital does not provide emergency contraception to rape victims: 4 in 5	Harper's Index Source: Catholics for a Free Choice (Washington)
Mar 1999	Ratio of the number of doctors per capita in the U.S. to the number of doctors per capita in Cuba: 1:2	Harper's Index Source: Pan-American Health Organization (Washington)/American Medical Association (Chicago)/Bureau of the Census
Jan 1999	Estimated number of people who watched a live Webcast of a hair transplant last fall: 8,000	Harper's Index Source: America's Health Network (Orlando, Fla.)
Jan 1999	Number of emergency-room visits in 1997 by elderly Americans injured while snowboarding: 75	Harper's Index Source: U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (Bethesda, Md.)
Nov 1998	Average percentage by which an American woman's out-of-pocket medical spending exceeds that of an American man: 68	Harper's Index Source: Women's Research &Education Institute (Washington)
Oct 1998	Percentage by which HMO Kaiser Permanente estimates that covering Viagra would drive up its pharmacy costs: 10	Harper's Index Source: Kaiser Permanente (Oakland, Calif.)
May 1998	Factor by which U.S. deaths from prescription and medication errors increased between 1983 and 1993: 2.6	Harper's Index Source: Professor David P. Phillips, University of California at San Diego (La Jolla, Calif.)
May 1998	Amount for which a Missouri inmate offered to sell one of his organs last winter to pay legal fees: $50,000	Harper's Index Source: H. Andrew Chastain, Crossroads Correctional Center (Cameron, Mo.)
May 1998	Percentage of parents who say that they would abort a fetus found to be predisposed to obesity: 11	Harper's Index Source: New England Regional Genetics Group (Newton, Mass.)
Apr 1998	Amount that U.S. health-care professionals owe in defaulted student loans: $107,000,000	Harper's Index Source: Health Resources and Services Administration (Washington)
Apr 1998	Rank of chiropractors among those most likely to default on their student loans: 1	Harper's Index Source: Health Resources and Services Administration (Washington)
Apr 1998	Number of CAT scans a Minneapolis radiologist performed last year on violins: 10	Harper's Index Source: Consulting Radiologists Limited (Minneapolis)
Apr 1998	Percentage of U.S. hospital deaths that follow a decision to withhold treatment: 70	Harper's Index Source: Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 256 (Chicago)

April 5, 2008	Doctors in Al-Anbar province connected a deadly malarial infection to Blackwater, whose contract the U.S. State Department recently renewed and who are currently under investigation by the FBI for the killing of 17 Iraqi civilians.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source 1: IPS.org Source 2: BBCnews.com
March 14, 2008	The cubicle turned 40, Viagra turned 10, and Hotel Luxor, the oldest whorehouse in Germany's red light district, announced that it would close for lack of business.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source 1: Time Source 2: Yahoo News Source 3: Associated Press
November 2, 2007	Rudy Giuliani conceded that although his campaign's statistic for prostate cancer survival rates in Britain was seven years old and 30 points off, Americans should still be wary of “socialized medicine.” “If we ever got to Hillarycare in this country,” said Giulani, “Canadians will have nowhere to go for health care.”	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
September 3, 2007	Psychiatrists announced that diagnoses of bipolar disorder in U.S. children have increased by 4,000 percent over the last 10 years.	Weekly Review By Chantal Clarke Source: International Herald Tribune
August 11, 2007	An eight-foot-five-inch Ukrainian, Leonid Stadnyk, was declared the world's tallest man; locals attributed his size to a brain operation in adolescence, and the penurious Stadnyk lamented that his continuous growth had ended his career as a veterinarian when he became too large to fit into a car and his fingers grew too big for him to press buttons. “Doctors tell me I will live a long life,” he said. “I hope it will be in happiness.”	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: Scotsman
June 11, 2007	Medical examiners announced that a 17-year-old U.S. track star who died in April overdosed on muscle-rub.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: New Scientist
May 31, 2007	An Italian doctor built vaginas for two women who lacked them due to Mayer-von Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters via ABC (Australia)
May 31, 2007	Serb farmers were exchanging cows for penis-enlargement surgery.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Independent Online
May 29, 2007	In New York, a psychologist named Gordon Gallup announced that semen may be a powerful and addictive antidepressant for women.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Psychology Today
May 8, 2007	The trial of Rafiq Sabir, a physician charged with conspiring to provide medical care to Al Qaeda, began. Evidence presented in the case included a recording of jazz bassist and martial-arts expert Tarik Shah, a good friend of Sabir's, teaching an FBI informant how to rip out a throat. “It fills their lungs with blood,” he explained.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source: NYT
May 8, 2007	The Milwaukee Brewers were giving away two free tickets to any fan who had his prostate examined.	Weekly Review By Sam Stark Source: MLB.com
April 20, 2007	Doctors in New York City removed a woman's gallbladder through her vagina.	Weekly Review By Claire Gutierrez Source: New York Times
March 23, 2007	White House press secretary Tony Snow announced that he would soon undergo surgery to remove a growth from his lower abdomen.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Reuters via Yahoo! News
March 21, 2007	To test the integrity of ten local hospitals, journalists in Hangzhou, China, replaced their urine samples with tea; six of the hospitals diagnosed the reporters with urinary tract infections.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: Reuters via Yahoo! Lifestyle
February 15, 2007	Chinese authorities sentenced businessman Wang Zhendong to death for his role in duping 10,000 investors out of $390 million in a giant ant-farming scam.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: BBC
February 8, 2007	A study conducted at the University of Chicago found that 14 percent of American doctors thought it was morally acceptable to lie to their patients about treatment options.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Daily Telegraph
December 13, 2006	The National Institutes of Health said that circumcision is an effective method to limit heterosexual transmission of HIV.	Weekly Review By Gemma Sieff Source: MSNBC
December 1, 2006	Experts warned people with pacemakers that refrigerator magnets “can be a killer.”	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: BBC
November 20, 2006	American scientists announced the creation of a self-aware robot that can heal itself.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Information Week
November 1, 2006	A New Hampshire orthodontist bought back local kids' Halloween candy for two dollars per pound.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: WSBTV Atlanta
October 11, 2006	In Israel, four doctors were arrested for carrying out illegal, non-consensual medical experiments on their patients.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Haaretz
September 26, 2006	Milagros, a Peruvian “mermaid” girl whose fused legs were separated by surgeons, took her first steps.	Weekly Review By Miriam Markowitz Source: AP via SBS
September 5, 2006	Britain's Royal Preston Hospital unveiled the “Inter-Faith Gown,” a hospital garment modeled on the Muslim burka.	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: Breitbart.com via the Drudge Report
August 30, 2006	Indian doctors were attempting to treat a girl who weeps tears of stone.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Times of India
August 24, 2006	F.D.A. representative Dr. Janet Woodcock said that selling the Plan B contraceptive over the counter would transform it into an “urban legend” that would tempt adolescents to create “sex-based cults.”	Weekly Review By Theodore Ross Source: New York Times
August 10, 2006	Doctors in India speculated that the birth of a one-eyed girl might be attributable to her mother's exposure to Cyclopamine, a cancer drug derived from wild corn lily that causes cyclopia in sheep.	Weekly Review By Christian Lorentzen Source: Wired News
July 30, 2006	Doctors in India removed a 15-year-old dead fetus from a woman's womb.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Times of India
July 25, 2006	Radiologists announced that many Americans were becoming too fat for X-rays.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: Reuters
June 5, 2006	Surgeons in Shanghai successfully removed a baby boy's third arm.	Weekly Review By Roger D. Hodge Source: AP
May 31, 2006	In China doctors were trying to determine which left arm to remove from a three-armed baby.	Weekly Review By Rafil Kroll-Zaidi Source: BBC
May 13, 2006	In Nigeria more than 150 people, some of them stealing fuel from a pipeline, died when the pipeline exploded. "By tomorrow," said a health commissioner, "we will dig a bigger ditch and bury them all."	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Reuters
April 19, 2006	British doctors criticized China for harvesting organs for transplant from thousands of executed prisoners.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
April 7, 2006	A chiropractor in Ohio was in trouble for telling his patients that he could cure their ills by traveling back in time to when the injury occurred (a practice he calls "Bahlaqeem").	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
April 2, 2006	A Swedish study linked heavy cell-phone use to malignant brain tumors.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Jerusalem Post
March 6, 2006	Only 75 psychiatrists remained in Iraq.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Democracy Now!
February 23, 2006	A hospital in Queens, New York, was investigating how a baby that died soon after birth was sent to a laundry service.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Newsday.com
January 18, 2006	The French face-transplant patient was smoking through her recently grafted-on lips.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
November 30, 2005	Surgeons in France performed a partial face transplant, taking the nose and lips of a brain-dead donor and grafting them onto the face of a woman who had been severely disfigured by a dog.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
November 17, 2005	A new nasal spray made women want sex.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: Local6.com
November 14, 2005	In Chhattisgarh, India, a three-day-old baby died from an infection when her parents were unable to afford surgery. The baby had been born with her heart in her hand.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: MSNBC
October 24, 2005	William Shatner passed a kidney stone.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: 14WFIE
October 6, 2005	A new vaccine that prevents cervical cancer was found to be 100 percent effective.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: CNN.com
September 12, 2005	It was revealed that, several months before it issued a warning, the FDA had been aware that the Guidant Ventak Prizm 2 DR heart defibrillator had a tendency to short-circuit.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The New York Times
August 29, 2005	Scientists announced that they had created mice that could regrow amputated extremities.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The Australian
August 25, 2005	The FDA was working out a plan to regulate medicinal maggots and leeches, both of which it has classified as "devices." "The primary mode of action for maggots," said a representative from a medicinal maggot firm, "is chewing."	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: The New York Times
July 15, 2005	Prayer was found to be no help for heart patients.	Weekly Review By Paul Ford Source: BBC News
June 30, 2005	In New Zealand a baby boy undergoing penis-enla

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