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Archive: Spring 2006

Features
	Down the Hatch A new opening would lead surgeons past endoscopy and laparoscopy to a procedure that leaves no scars. Full text \| pdf (1.31 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	Still a Scourge After crippling millions worldwide, polio may soon be wiped out. But to the last, the virus is proving an elusive, stubborn foe. Full text \| pdf (2.28 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	Turning Off Cancer A "new" approach, 40 years in the making, attempts to keep blood vessels from feeding tumors. It's starting to work. Full text \| pdf (980 KB) \| printer-friendly version

	No More Lies Brain-scanning breakthroughs are proving remarkably able to detect falsehoods. But is it wrong to invade a liar's skull? Full text \| pdf (1.05 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	25 Years of AIDS They were hooked from the start, four pioneers whose work changed the course of a modern plague—and they're not done yet. Full text \| pdf (1.23 MB) \| printer-friendly version

Stat & Post-op

	Interview Nortin M. Hadler: First, Do No Harm

	Infographic Drug Approval Decoded

	Point/Counterpoint Should there be Different Drugs for Different Races?

	Policy Watch Will NIH Cuts Stifle Research?

	Post Op // First Person The Difficult Patient

	The List Higher Tech for Diabetics

	Stat Hygienic, comfortable, even fetching...

	By the Numbers Blood Count

Message from the MGH (pdf) | Our Readers Respond: Spring 2006

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