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The Truth About "Value Meals"

News flash: Fast food is bad for you!Okay, you probably already knew that. But in a recession like this, isn't it tempting to bite at anything labeled "value?"I just noticed on one of my favorite food blogs, The Food Section, that a DC-based nonprofit called the Cancer Project published a report th...
December 12, 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Vitamins: Friend or Foe?

I don't know about you, but I grew up in a vitamin-happy household. My mom used to lovingly arrange a tiny army of pills next to our orange juice glasses on school mornings: the chalky white circles were vitamin C; the weird little bubbles contained vitamins E, A and D; and the uncomfortably large,...
December 04, 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Couldn't Eat Another Bite - But Why?

Amanda has a great post asking people what they'd choose for their last meal. I think I could only answer this if my death was to be a surprise - anything else is too depressing to contemplate. Although if I were being executed, I'd probably go with the fantastically poisonous fugu fish if only to ...
December 03, 2008 | By Hugh Powell

Aspen trees

What's Killing the Aspen?

The signature tree of the Rockies is in trouble
December 2008 | By Michelle Nijhuis

Healthy Holiday Eating Strategies

This isn’t meant to be a “how to" blog, but I recently stumbled across some useful tips at a Smithsonian employee event and thought I should share the wealth. The speaker, a certified nutritionist named Alana Sugar (I know, right? That’s her real name!) talked about people’s “love/hate relationship...
November 25, 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Chapel of All Saints, San Luis, Colorado

The 'Secret Jews' of San Luis Valley

In Colorado, the gene linked to a virulent form of breast cancer found mainly in Jewish women is discovered in Hispanic Catholics
October 2008 | By Jeff Wheelwright

How Breast Cancer Genes Work

Though we may talk of cancer as one disease, skin cancer has little in common with pancreatic cancer and breast cancer is something else entirely
October 2008 | By Sarah Zielinski

Tainted Tomatoes

A food-poisoning scare spurs debate
August 2008 | By Amanda Bensen

Rogone

A Neonatal Niche

Medical companies ignored the needs of premature infants, inspiring a nurse to become an entrepreneur
March 2008 | By Katy June-Friesen

Prototype Online: Inventive Voices

Sharon Rogone, a neonatal nurse-turned-inventor, talks about her first invention
March 01, 2008 | By Smithsonian's Lemelson Center

Pharmacy of Santa Maria Novella

Heaven Scent

A 600-year-old pharmacy started by Florentine monks is now a trendy global marketer of perfumes and medieval elixirs
February 2008 | By Mishal Husain

Wielding cameras bought on eBay, youngsters from an orphanage near Lusaka, Zambia, enjoy an afternoon safari led by Klaus Schoenwiese as part of his photography workshop. Left to right: Nicolas (peering through viewfinder), Thokodzile, Amos, Bobsisa, Charity, Mwewa, Faustina, Charles (standing) and Mary (in cap).

Point. Shoot. See

In Zambia, an NYC photographer teaches kids orphaned by AIDS how to take pictures. They teach him about living
November 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

Why does the human immune system sometimes fail to thwart invaders? John Wherry is trying to find out, the better to design a more effective flu vaccine.

Flu Fighter

With a possible pandemic in our future, immunologist John Wherry is racing to develop a once-a-lifetime vaccine
October 2007 | By Arthur Allen

One quality that makes Alicia J. Graf distinctive is “her gangliness, her long, lanky physique, kind of like a young colt,” says Judith Jamison, of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. “She’s so well trained and has such a wonderful long line already.”

Show Stopper

The classically trained dance star Alicia Graf showed true grit overcoming a career-threatening ailment
October 2007 | By Cathleen McGuigan

Trailed by reporters, Jimmy Carter launched his antimalaria initiative in the small community of Afeta. Some 50 million Ethiopians (Kemeru Gessese washes clothes in a river) live in regions where the disease is rampant.

The Ethiopia Campaign

After fighting neglected diseases in Africa for a quarter century, former president Jimmy Carter takes on one of the continent's biggest killers malaria
June 2007 | By Robert M. Poole

In a recent study, malaria-resistant mosquitoes —tipped off by their neon green eyes—faired better than typical wild insects after feeding on infected blood.

Can Mosquitoes Fight Malaria?

Scientists can build a mosquito that resists infection, but getting the insects to pass along the gene is a harder task
June 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

The Nic Fix

Put down your lighters and pick up your health care cards—, nicotine vaccines are in the works
April 01, 2007 | By Eric Jaffe

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
February 2007 | By Caroline Alexander

Rivaling Nature

The war in Iraq has increased demand for limb and facial plastic surgeons
February 2007 | By Caroline Alexander

Doctor Feelgood

Stricken by "vile melancholy," the 18th-century critic and raconteur Samuel Johnson pioneered a modern therapy
January 2007 | By John Geirland


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