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Your DNA is a snitch
Peter Dizikes
Today's simple genetic tests can reveal your private nature. Just don't expect it to stay secret.
Grandma doin’ time
Abigail Kramer
A disturbing look at the growing number of geriatric women in prison.
How bad is pancreatic cancer?
Robert Burton
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery on Thursday. One doctor assesses the risks.
The fear about peanut allergies is nuts
Rahul K. Parikh
Parents and medical groups are doing more harm than good stirring up worries about food allergies.
Alcoholics, sexaholics, shopaholics
Laura Miller
America is a country in recovery. Two new books illustrate the paradoxes and contradictions in our current notions of addiction.
Make the stimulus big, smart and fair
Angela Blackwell
Don't build more car-choked highways and bridges to nowhere. Investing in jobs, transit and people will build a prosperous, inclusive America.
How to live what Michael Pollan preaches
Laura Miller
Mark Bittman's revolutionary "Food Matters" is both a cookbook and a manifesto that shows us how to eat better -- and save the planet.
“To stop women’s silent suffering”
Phyllis Chesler
Feminist royalty toasts the late Barbara Seaman -- sometimes shocking activist, controversial author and staunch women's health advocate.
A new use for stem cells: Breast augmentation
Catherine Price
Enterprising doctors have figured out a way to use a woman's own stem cells to make her boobs look bigger.
Awesome or awful? Fat camp scholarships
Judy Berman
Essay contests invite children to win a summer of free weight loss.
A blogosphere of their own
Rebecca Traister
Outrage over the N.Y. Times' story on the all-female BlogHer convention prompts the question: Are women on the Web just not taken quite as seriously as men?
Remembering Thomas M. Disch
Elizabeth Hand
In his many dark, satirical, heretical books, the pioneering science fiction author contemplated death with elegant despair.
A wonderful, magical animal
Sarah Hepola
Tom Colicchio, David Chang and others on the virtues of the hog, the importance of ethical farming and why true pork lovers are not ignorant pigs about their meat.
Sick in the head
Jennifer Traig
I've diagnosed myself with heart attacks, blood poisoning, meningitis and multiple sclerosis. Turns out, what I had was hypochondria.
Healthcare needs you
Rahul K. Parikh
Ask not what healthcare can do for you but what you can do, with incentives, for healthcare.
Heart disease is a feminist issue
Kate Harding
Diabetic women get less intensive treatment for their heart disease than men do.
When panic attacks!
Meredith Maran
America is the most anxious country on the planet. So will I ever learn to live with my fear, racing heart and disaster scenarios?
I’m an exhausted caregiver on the point of collapse
Cary Tennis
In caring for my sick husband and father and my demented mother, I feel I've ceased to exist as a person.
Stars, stripes and sexual assault
Catherine Price
Nearly a third of women in the U.S. military report being raped or sexually assaulted while serving. What can be done about this?
Indiana Jones and the kingdom of fat kids
Rahul K. Parikh
With childhood obesity at alarming rates, movie tie-ins to fast food are irresponsible. An open letter to George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.
Eating candy for science
Catherine Price
British researchers are seeking 150 diabetic postmenopausal women to eat a special chocolate daily to see if it reduces their risk of heart disease. Does this strike you as odd?
Life expectancy drops for some American women
Sarah Hepola
Hey, weren't we all supposed to live longer than our parents?
Race and the white coat
Rahul K. Parikh
Racial bias in doctors and healthcare workers is doing great harm. Is enough being done to stop it?
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