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Once bitten

The fight over what is — and what is not — Lyme disease
Does chronic Lyme disease exist? If so, how is it treated? If not, what’s making so many people so very sick?
By DEIRDRE FULTON | September 17, 2008

Unhinging the binge

Some drinks are just too good to chug
I have a possible solution for the binge-drinking quandary: be more discerning about what you pour down your throat.
By CAITLIN E. CURRAN | September 02, 2008

Infectious nexus?

Can rigorous protocols keep the BU biolab safe?

By ADAM REILLY | April 02, 2008

The kids in the hall

Teen pregnancies are up. Can on-campus student-parent services be far behind?
Someone is going to get pregnant.
By KARA BASKIN | January 22, 2008

Maggots ate my flesh!

As antibiotics increasingly lose their potency, medical professionals are turning to (yecch!) fly larvae to take a bite out of wound recovery
If you met Dana — attractive, athletic, and tan, somewhere in her 30s — you’d never guess her secret.
By AUDREY SCHULMAN | July 16, 2007

The Pah-ty's ovah

Congressional reps from New England are poised to lead the attack on Republican waste and fraud
For the past six years, the Republican-run federal government has been free to waste money, reward friends, and act incompetently, knowing that their misdeeds would go unexposed by the legislative branch. Nailing the GOP: New England Congressmen are sitting on some key committees. By David S. Bernstein
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | January 24, 2007

The AIDS story

On an ever-worsening subject
This story originally appeared in the December 9, 1986 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By MARK JURKOWITZ | January 05, 2007

The changing face of AIDS

Now in charge of two AIDS action committees, Rebecca Haag lays out a 10-year plan
There’s no doubt that AIDS is a different disease than it was two decades ago. Rebecca Haag wants to make sure we’ll be able to say the same thing 20 years from now.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | March 08, 2006

The fat of the land

Does the obsession with losing weight do more harm than good?
A few months ago, for Jenna Broccolo’s 15th birthday, she and her family took a trip to New York City to attend a festival in Little Italy. Jenna, a sophomore at Westerly High School, asked her mom for one more gift: a full-length mirror. “You go, girl!” said her mom, Ann Marie Broccolo.
By | January 17, 2006

US airlines could be on front lines for bird flu

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. airlines could be on the front lines in a bird flu outbreak and federal health officials are streamlining procedures for the possible quarantine of sick passengers.

By | November 11, 2005

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