Cover Story
DOPING FOR THE GOLD
In 1988, it was Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson. In 2000, American track star Marion Jones. In 2004, Russian shot putter Irina Korzhanenko. No doubt there will be at least one in the Olympic Games openi...
Features
HeLa Cells: ‘Spreading like Crabgrass’
In February 1951, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital ward for “colored” patients, a 30-year-old woman underwent radium treatment for an aggressive strain of cervical cancer. Just before the surgeon sew...Rx for Reducing Health Disparities in Type 2 Diabetes
Over the past 30 years, the U.S. population living in poverty has become increasingly obese while wealthier income brackets have maintained lower body mass indexes (BMIs). This trend is a reversal of ...Breaking News: MEN at RISK for OSTEOPOROSIS
“What do you mean I should be tested for osteoporosis? Isn’t that a woman’s disease?!” your patient asks incredulously. But he really gets upset when you send him to the women’s health cente...
