Survival Lessons From a Sinking Plane
January 16, 2009
Simple Checklist Makes Surgery Safer
Kalim A. Bhatti for The New York Times
A new checklist could help lower the risk of complications from surgeries.
A quick and inexpensive safety checklist reduced surgical complications and deaths.
Sleeping Pills Rising in Popularity Among Young Adults
Use of sleep medications among adults ages 18 to 24 increased dramatically over an eight-year period, according to a new analysis.
A Device to Avert Strokes Lacks Proof That It Works
A device intended to prevent strokes provides a case study of how the actions of many can combine to undercut the gathering of reliable medical evidence.
Love the Long Eyelashes. Who’s Your Doctor?
The company behind Botox plans to introduce the first F.D.A.-approved drug for growing longer eyelashes.
Pfizer to Cut Researchers as It Hones Its Focus
The drug company plans to reduce its global research staff by 5 percent to 8 percent in an effort to refocus disappointing research efforts and cut its overhead.
Medicine
Global Update
Eradication Goal for Measles Is Unlikely, Report Says
Measles remains a public health problem in Europe, and there are “serious doubts” that it can be eliminated by 2010 as health officials had hoped, according to a new report in The Lancet.
Society
Vital Signs
Safety: Device Disables a Driver’s Cellphone
A device designed to prevent cellphone use while driving may lower the rate of traffic accidents, but will it be popular among teens?
Behavior
Mind
Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early
Recent research has helped clarify not just who is prone to self-handicapping but also its consequences -- and its possible benefits.
Jane Gross blogs about aging parents and
the adult children struggling to care for them.
Personal Health
New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart
Some newer suggestions for how to protect your heart may surprise you.
Really?
The Claim: Chocolate Can Be Disruptive to Sleep
Is chocolate’s caffeine content enough to keep you up?
Well
A Problem of the Brain, Not the Hands: Group Urges Phone Ban for Drivers
The National Safety Council is calling for a ban on car phones, even hands-free ones.
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Multimedia
Patient Voices: Psoriasis
Scaly, itchy skin, painful joints and challenging treatment regimens -- seven men, women and children speak about living with psoriasis.
- Health Guide: Psoriasis
More Patient Voices: AIDS | Multiple Sclerosis | Restless Leg Syndrome
The Weekly Health Quiz
In the news: Cellphones, sleep aides and cosmetic enhancement. Test your knowledge of this week's health news.
Inside Health
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Regional Differences in Cost and Care
Track the variability of cost in the Medicare system and the rates of several kinds of surgery.
Times Essentials
The latest news and scientific perspective on common diseases and conditions.
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EXERCISEDoes It Keep You Healthy? 
FOOT PAINYour Poor Feet
BIRTH CONTROLWeighing the Health Benefits
OBESITYFor the Overweight, Bad Advice
ALZHEIMER’SCoping With the Disease
PATIENT VOICESPancreatic Cancer: In Their Own Words
Times Talks: Eldercare
Taking Care
A panel of experts shared insights into the best ways to meet the medical, financial and legal challenges of getting older.MOST POPULAR - HEALTH
- Personal Health: New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart
- Well: The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating
- 18 and Under: Making Room for Miss Manners Is a Parenting Basic
- Recipes for Health: Brown Rice Fusilli With Broccoli Rabe or Greens
- More Isn’t Always Better in Coronary Care
- Patient Money: Health Care You Can’t Afford Not to Afford
- Malaysian Stir-Fried Noodles With Shrimp
- Well: Survival Lessons From a Sinking Plane
- Susceptibility to Colds Linked to a Lack of Sleep
- Doctor and Patient: Putting a Price on Compassion
- Book Is Rallying Resistance to the Antivaccine Crusade
- Big Insurer Agrees to Update Its Fee Data
- Making Room for Miss Manners Is a Parenting Basic
- Patterns: Trying to Avoid a Cold? Go Back to Bed
- New Idea to Cut I.C.U. Trauma: Get Patients Up, Tubes and All
- Love the Eyelashes. Who Is Your Doctor?
- A Problem of the Brain, Not the Hands: Group Urges Phone Ban for Drivers
- In F.D.A. Files, Claims of Leniency and a Rush to Approve Medical Devices
- Children's Life Expectancy Being Cut Short by Obesity
- Study Finds Drug Risks With Newer Antipsychotics
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