The Melting Snows of Kilimanjaro (0)
11/03/09 •
The snows of Kilimanjaro are rapidly disappearing and will be gone by 2033, predicts the most detailed analysis yet of the iconic glaciers gracing Africa’s highest peak.
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Drug Companies Used Physician Education to Push Pills (3)
10/20/09 •
Drug makers routinely exploited continuing education seminars as opportunities to market pills to doctors, drug company documents reveal.
Injections of Hope – Doctors Promote Offshore Shots but Some Patients Cry Foul (0)
9/02/08 •
Patients are paying tens of thousands of dollars for stem cell treatments overseas, yet there’s little evidence the shots do any good. My reporting for The Washington Post turned up dozens of stem cell clinics and plenty of unhappy patients.
A User-Friendly Computer Virus (0)
4/01/08 •
A virtual outbreak in the online game World of Warcraft teaches epidemiologists about real-world pandemics. Utne Reader reprinted this feature from Science News.
HIV Vaccine Efforts Inch Forward (1)
10/17/01 •
In this 2001 JAMA news article, I examine the difficulties producing an HIV vaccine and predict an effective vaccine is many years away. Recent disappointing trial results bear out the prediction.
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