Medicine

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Faith Mitchell: Gullah Herbal Remedies and Magical Healing

"Here is business enough for you," Gage told the first doctor to treat him after a premature detonation on a railroad-building site turned a tamping iron into a missile.

Phineas Gage: Neuroscience's Most Famous Patient

An accident with a tamping iron made Phineas Gage history's most famous brain-injury survivor

At an 18th-century auction in Amsterdam, Vermeer's Woman in Blue Reading a Letter sold for about one-third the amount that its owner spent to obtain a then rare Conus gloriamaris shell.

Mad About Seashells

Collectors have long prized mollusks for their beautiful exteriors, but for scientists, it’s what inside that matters

Citizens of Mexico City wear masks to prevent the spread of swine flu.

Dreading the Worst When it Comes to Epidemics

A scientist by training, author Philip Alcabes studies the etymology of epidemiology and the cultural fears of worldwide disease

Rogone (in a San Bernadino hospital) says "my babies' motivated the inventions.

A Neonatal Niche

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur

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Prototype Online: Inventive Voices

Sharon Rogone, a neonatal nurse-turned-inventor, talks about her first invention

“Strong Medicine” Speaks

Recollections from the matriarch of a once hidden tribe

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The Nic Fix

Put down your lighters and pick up your health care cards—, nicotine vaccines are in the works

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Rivaling Nature

The war in Iraq has increased demand for limb and facial plastic surgeons

Sculptors and artists designed lifelike masks for gravely wounded soldiers.

Faces of War

Amid the horrors of World War I, a corps of artists brought hope to soldiers disfigured in the trenches

Dr. Henderson a week after he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Bush

35 Who Made a Difference: D. A. Henderson

Eradicating one of history's deadliest diseases was just the beginning

Oil platforms (above, the Spree tied to a Gulf of Mexico rig) serve as artificial reefs, attracting organisms with intriguing properties.

Medicine from the Sea

From slime to sponges, scientists are plumbing the ocean's depths for new medications to treat cancer, pain and other ailments

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Prize Fight

Raymond Damadian refuses to take his failure to win a Nobel Prize, for a prototype MRI machine, lying down

Neuroscientist Eugene Aserinsky attaches electrodes to his son, Armond, who was a frequent subject in his early sleep studies

The Stubborn Scientist Who Unraveled A Mystery of the Night

Fifty years ago, Eugene Aserinksy discovered rapid eye movement and changed the way we think about sleep and dreaming

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Take Two and Call Me in the Morning

Once we didn't know how aspirin works; now we know that it does a lot more than ease pain and inflammation

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The "Indomitable" MRI

Raymond Damadian's medical imaging machine set off a revolution but not without controversy

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You Will Feel No Pain

Doctors and patients swear hypnosis works, but after years of research we still don't know how

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The Quality of Mercy

At a small hospital in Vermont, nurses practice medicine as an art, marshaling compassion and skill in equal measure

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How a Weed Once Scorned Became the Flower of the Hour

The gaudy sunflower is the ornament of the Nineties, turning up everywhere and on everything, including baseball players' faces

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