The New England Journal of Medicine

Big Pharma lobbies against S.F. drug proposal

Serious as a Heart Attack: Young Blacks Develop Coronary Failure at 20 Times Whites' Rate

Trouble brewingA 20-year study conducted by U.C. San Francisco researchers demonstrated alarmingly disproportionate results between whites and blacks when it comes to developing heart failure by age 50. Of the 5,115 subjects in the study, 27 developed heart failure by the time they were in their mid ... More >>

Project Censored

Lefty weeklies are always bitching about the mainstream press. Here're some rotten chestnuts we wish the alternative press would quit serving up.

Letters to the Editor

Letters from January 24, 2001

As a Matter of Fat

The city's new weight discrimination law is badly reasoned, legally defective, costly, and bad for public health

Shut Up or Park

Want to escape cell-phone-wielding drivers? Move to Ohio.

Surgery Sans Blood

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transfusions -- and led the way to bloodless surgery

Letters

Jehovah's Witnesses refused transfusions -- and led the way to bloodless surgery

Men Behaving Viciously

How ACT UP San Francisco spreads spit, fake blood, used cat litter, and potentially deadly misinformation through the AIDS community

The Living Daylights

Some people with HIV don't get sick for years and years and years. Their lives might contain the clues for the cure.