Subject: Medicine

• Happy Food Allergy Awareness Week

  May 11, 2007

• The Dentist Is Out

  September 24, 1998

• Color Blinded

  January 28, 1999

• Nova, HEAL Thyself

  February 4, 1999

• The Straight Dope

  March 4, 1999

• Sexual Roulette

  May 27, 1999

• Dairy, Dairy, Quite Contrary

  June 3, 1999

• Best Place to Gamble

  May 17, 2001

• Letters for December 12, 2002

  December 12, 2002

• Letters for December 19-25, 2002

  December 19, 2002

• Letters for December 26, 2002

  December 26, 2002

• Best Correction

  May 15, 2003

• Bloodletting

  June 26, 2003

• Letters for April 1, 2004

  April 1, 2004

• Best Boobs

  May 13, 2004

• Best Place for a Second Date

  May 12, 2005

• Medical Examiner Perper: Casey the Likely Killer, Jett's Autopsy Flawed

  Broward County Medical Examiner Dr. Joshua Perper became a familiar sight on TV after the death of Anna Nicole Smith two years ago, when he was the man overseeing her autopsy.  These days, he's been popping up regularly on Nancy Grace to talk about the death of toddler Caylee Anthony, despite the fact the case is not being handled by his office.Juice gave Perper a call to discuss his side gig, and during our chat, he dished on Jett Travolta, Nancy Grace, and fear of death. The interview aft

  January 30, 2009

• Are Hospitals Helping the Homeless?

  Not enough, say some who are learning to fend for themselves

  January 3, 2008

• Letters for February 14-20, 2008

  February 14, 2008

• Abstinence education grant renewed for Palm Beach schools

  October 16, 2008

• NFL Tackles Flesh-Eating Infections

  Staph infections sacked these two Pro BowlersLast fall, staph infections were going around the NFL like a bimbo on a broken Ferris wheel. Even Time magazine felt compelled to point out that "a microscopic foe can be much more imposing than a 300-pound lineman"; why, even the indomitable Peyton Manning, the flawless Tom Brady, and six Cleveland Browns had been taken down by the bug. In response, Commissioner Roger Goodell, in conjunction with the NFL Players Association, sent two doctors to inspe

  March 13, 2009

• The Strange World of Dr. Edison

  Here's a story about some ghosts from the past coming back to haunt Hollywood plastic surgeon Richard B. Edison. A Massachusetts man named Tim Clark has sued the doctor claiming that he sexually assaulted him over a period of two years in the 1970s -- when Edison was in medical school and the plaintiff was just 12.    In the past, the allegations against Edison have involved more common physicians' woes, like botched surgeries and unexpected deaths during or

  March 19, 2009

• Wasserman Schultz Beats Breast Cancer

  C. StilesWasserman SchultzAround this time one year ago, I was researching an in-depth article on Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the fast-rising Democratic congresswoman who represents the West Broward suburbs and still manages to be a minivan-driving soccer mom for her Weston family. I had no idea until this weekend that at the same time, she'd just learned she had breast cancer.Back then, it seemed that Wasserman Schultz's gravest adversity was her fierce commitment to Hillary Clinton's fading pres

  March 23, 2009

• Embattled Plastic Surgeon Richard B. Edison Faces Molestation Charge in Lawsuit

  March 19, 2009

• A Glass a Day

  February 19, 2009

• Simmer Down, Kids!

  Sex-ed teachers want to know: How do you get hormones to listen to reason?

  January 31, 2008

• Doctor G-Spot

  He says he can find it, plump it, and unleash the Big O

  July 12, 2007

• Wasserman Schultz Pummeled in Press

  C. StilesDebbie Wasserman SchultzThis time of year, the nation's college football teams stage spring practices, and in a measure to spare quarterbacks from risk of injury, teams dress that player in a red or yellow jersey -- a visual reminder to linebackers that this one player is untouchable. When Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced last month that she had had a double mastectomy in the course of a year-long tangle with breast cancer, the media handed her a protective jersey.And no

  April 15, 2009

• In Cord Blood

  Turning the miracle of birth into the banking of cold, hard cash.

  August 31, 2006

• The Protection Racket

  And the band plays on

  February 2, 2006

• No Touchy

  October 20, 2005

• The Beav Speaks

  Jerry Mathers fights the itch

  April 15, 2004

• Cardiac Cronies

  Enough waste and mismanagement to make you blow a valve

  March 18, 2004

• Cuts You Up

  As the number of cesarean section deliveries in South Florida soars, some women use midwives to learn to trust their bodies and give birth naturally

  March 18, 2004

• A Screw Loose

  Sein Lwin is a political expert. Medicine? Well, that's something else altogether.

  March 11, 2004

• Unsafe Sex

  Our intrepid reporter probes the gay orgies that have helped to spark a runaway syphilis outbreak

  May 22, 2003

• Blood Trade

  Two companies wage a never-sanguine war for your bodily fluid

  November 28, 2002

• Acting Out

  Whether or not the state helps out AIDS sufferers, last week's botched protest says much about the HIV community's problem

  March 28, 2002

• Change, Change, Change

  Sing it loud, sing it proud, girls; it happens to the best of us

  August 23, 2001

• Requiem for a Butcher

  Need a tummy tuck? Plastic surgeon Jerry Lingle may not be your guy.

  June 7, 2001

• The Best Shot at a Cure For Cancer

  Cancer vaccines are the hottest thing in oncology. Dr. Howard Abel is bringing the experimental treatment to South Florida.

  October 5, 2000

• My Life as a Eunuch

  What's a man to do if he doesn't want his balls hanging around? Simple: Just find someone to cut them off.

  May 25, 2000

• The Last Sanatorium

  When tuberculosis, one of mankind's most pernicious diseases, threatens public health, the patients are sent to A.G. Holley State Hospital

  April 13, 2000

• Taking a Scalpel to Plastic Surgery

  "Body Buy Back: A Temporary Installation Reflecting on the Practice and Social Dimensions of Cosmetic Surgery"

  January 6, 2000

• Miracle Baby

  Seven years ago Bill Wetzel got testicular cancer and became sterile. Luckily he had already made a deposit at the sperm bank.

  January 6, 2000

• Cigarette Smokers Burned By New Tax; Cigar Aficionados Blow Celebratory Rings

  flickr.com While cigarette smokers will now pay a dollar per pack more, the legislature gave the cigar industry a break. A new state-wide dollar-per-pack tax on cigarettes and smokeless and pipe tobacco starts today. The stated goal from the legislature is to encourage smokers to stop. If not for their own health, for the health of bank account. T he tax will also raise an estimated $950 million for health care, according to Sen. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, sponsor of the bill. C

  July 1, 2009

• Planned Parenthood Opens Two New Clinics in Broward to Meet Growing Demand

  Photo by Judith Selzer Planned Parenthood CEO Lillian Tamayo makes it official in Pembroke Pines​Douglas Marshall, director of business development for Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, has no shortage of distressing accounts of patients he has helped. After the ribbon-cutting ceremony yesterday at the newly opened clinic in Pembroke Pines, he recounted a story about a 15-year-old girl who came in for a pregnancy test. The test came back positive, and Marshall

  August 19, 2009

• Sex Ed Group Targets Florida in War Against Abstinence-Only Education

  That's a video from this past April, which gives you some context for the briefing yesterday on Capitol Hill by SIECUS -- the organization that promotes sex education and attacks the abstinence-only curricula that gained momentum during the Bush years.Obama's election brought a halt to that momentum on a national level, but Florida still has a Republican-dominated legislature that figures to resist the federal effort to use dollars formerly earmarked for abstinence education for sex education.A

  October 22, 2009

• Waiting for Swine Flu Vaccine? Just Skip It.

  Don't want it. Don't need it.​In what may come to be called the Great Swine Flu Fuck-Up, local health officials have vaccinated thousands of schoolkids this year with the regular seasonal flu nasal mist -- a vaccination which unfortunately promises to protect them not at all. The seasonal flu vaccine purportedly protects against three viral strains that aren't very common this year -- those three strains together will probably account for as little as five percent of flu illnesses. But the kic

  October 26, 2009

• Lauderdale Dr. Gary Snyder Argues Against Flu Vaccine

  Snyder's home flu repellent: Vitamin D​Historians will look back some day on the autumn of 2009 as a period of mass hysteria over a relatively innocuous strain of flu called H1N1, which so far has killed 1,000 Americans (normal seasonal flu averages 36,000 U.S. deaths per year, according to the CDC -- see how they arrive at that count in this Slate article). President Obama has declared swine flu a "national emergency" that might kill 90,000

  October 27, 2009