Showing results for: diabetes (page 64)
Eggs for a good cause
Catherine Price
Australian experts ask women with Type 1 diabetes, cystic fibrosis and other diseases to give their eggs for stem cell reserch.
Why won’t my friends just shut up and let me die?
Cary Tennis
I have a very rare disease. All the doctors know is that it's going to kill me.
What else we’re reading
Carol Lloyd
Warning signs for heart disease and diabetes, the role of palmistry in female athletic prowess and more.
The Frappuccino generation
Katharine Mieszkowski
Starbucks says it doesn't market to kids. But its sugary coffee confections represent the new cool for teens. While nutritionists are gasping, the caffeinated kids are buzzing.
Big and beautiful, but not healthy, in South Africa
Tracy Clark-Flory
Expert says rise in obesity among South African women is due in part to fears of appearing to have HIV/AIDS.
My big fat obnoxious former self
Rebecca Golden
I'm glad I don't weigh 571 pounds anymore. But I miss my big-girl righteousness and bravado.
The believer
Steve Paulson
Francis Collins -- head of the Human Genome Project -- discusses his conversion to evangelical Christianity, why scientists do not need to be atheists, and what C.S. Lewis has to do with it.
Dueling wedge issues in Wisconsin
Alex Koppelman
Gay marriage isn't what it used to be, and Democrats may have found something -- stem cell research -- that trumps it.
Jicama in the ‘hood
Tracie McMillan
Legislators and local food activists are fighting to get healthy, organic food into the nation's poorest neighborhoods.
Building a safer pregnancy
Page Rockwell
Researchers are working to better treat and monitor the high-risk pregnancy condition preeclampsia.
“Pro-life” parents say stem cell veto’s a “vote breaker”
Lynn Harris
Bush's move: Bad for science -- and for the GOP?
The suspicious death of Dr. Evil
Michael Scherer
Spurred by a Salon inquiry, the Army is reopening an investigation into whether Saddam's poison master died as a result of abusive treatment by U.S. troops.
What else we’re reading
Tracy Clark-Flory
Saudi government to women: Feel free to start your own businesses, but please, no heavy lifting. Also, a U.K. school bans girls' "Ooompa-Loompa" look.
Big love
Josh Max
Forget abs of steel -- give me soft arms, wide hips and fleshy lips! For as long as I can remember, I've been turned on by fat women.
Breast bullies
Lori Leibovich
An alarmist New York Times article says that feeding your baby formula may be as dangerous as smoking while pregnant. Isn't it time we cut non-nursing moms some slack?
Bitter pills
Janelle Brown
Thousands of Americans buy cheap prescription drugs in Mexico. Some end up in squalid south-of-the-border prisons.
Holy “Handmaid’s Tale,” Batman!
Rebecca Traister
The United States is a baby factory; we just live here.
Mother inferior
Dani Shapiro
My relationship with my mother was always cloaked in barbed wire. When my young son became gravely ill, I had to cut her off. Then she began to die, and we were forced together for the last time -- and the first.
The gagging and the glory
Sarah Goldstein
Ryan Nerz spent a year on the competitive eating circuit -- land of therapeutic vomiting, esophagus control and "meat sweats."
Who was John Fante?
Allen Barra
The Italian American author of "Ask the Dust" was the quintessential L.A. writer, a big brother to the Beats and the voice of immigrant America.
Bush nominee broke law
Will Evans
A federal judge nominated to the U.S. Circuit Court owned stock in corporations involved in lawsuits brought before him.
Big Pharma to Africa’s aid? Really?
Andrew Leonard
Roche says it will help poor countries make cheap drugs, no questions asked. Why?
The beef over pet food
Katharine Mieszkowski
Bowser gets raw meat because wolves eat it in the wild. Tabby gets raw chicken because lions don't eat kibble. But vets say the recent trend of raw feeding is dangerous to pets and people.
Be very afraid
Joshuah Bearman
In "The Monster at Our Door," "City of Quartz" author Mike Davis warns that urban poverty has created the perfect conditions for bird flu to kill millions of people.
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