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  • Blogs

    February 22, 2012

    Virginia Might Not Forcibly Wand Women's Vaginas

    And now for some good news and some bad news. The good news: Virginia might not forcibly wand women's vaginas after all. The bad news: Virginia had thought that forcibly wanding women's vaginas was a good idea in the first place. Let's rewind a bit. Last week, Slate reported on a bill passed by ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 20, 2012

    Rick Santorum Opposes Prenatal Testing, Women

    ​Rick Santorum doesn't think that insurance companies should have to pay for a simple diagnostic test that determines whether a baby will be born sick or severely disabled. Santorum, who is so anti-abortion that he would make his own daughter carry a rape-baby to term, thinks that amniocente ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    We Would Like to Make a Motion to Institute 'Tweet That You Have Had HPV Day'

    ​HPV: Have you heard of it? You probably have, because in the last few days and weeks it's been talked about a lot -- often incorrectly -- by people like Michele Bachmann and, most recently, tweeted about by Ayelet Waldman, wife of novelist Michael Chabon. In Bachmann's case, she's using HPV v ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2011

    Today in El Diario: Women Dying For Mammograms

    ​Audit: Women might die waiting for their mammograms City Controller John C. Liu said that hundreds of New York's women will face dangerous waits for mammograms, according to the Spanish-language daily. Liu's announcement is the result of an internal audit of nine Health and Hospitals Corpo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Volunteer in an HIV Vaccine Study

    ​ Fucking around might be some people's idea of volunteering in an HIV study, but believe me, there are better ways. The other night at Lips, Peppermint and friends brought together an illustrious gang of club favorites to toast each other and to promote Project Achieve's vaccine study, which ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 12, 2011

    MEDICINE FOR THE MELANCHOLY

    A punk quick fix

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    Autism Via Vaccine Study is an 'Elaborate Fraud'

    Jenny McCarthy is wrong​A British study claiming that autism could be contracted from childhood vaccines, a cause championed most famously by actress Jenny McCarthy, has already been deemed a scientific mess full of errors, but a new report from a British medical journal contends that its inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    Whooping Cough, There It Is: 2010's Big Epidemic.

    ​While "Whooping Cough" sounds like something you catch on The Oregon Trail right before your oxen die of dysentery from trying to cross the river, it's actually a deadly cold that's currently killing babies in California right now at a rate not seen since 1955. Why's this happening, and how d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 16, 2010

    Change-of-Sex Surgeries at Johns Hopkins: About 20 Done So Far

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. November 6, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 56 Life's Such a Drag, They'd Rather Switch by Charles W. Slack For the past five years or so, the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore has been offering a change-of-sex service to certain carefully scree ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Man Who Received World's First Full Face Transplant Shows New Face on TV

    ​The world's first full face transplant patient appeared on TV today for the first time since surgery to thank the donor's family and his doctors. His name is Oscar, and "he spoke with difficulty," which is only to be expected considering his extreme surgery, which took 24 hours during which d ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    April 6, 2010

    The Most Famous Woman in the World

    ​The world's first full face transplant patient appeared on TV today for the first time since surgery to thank the donor's family and his doctors. His name is Oscar, and "he spoke with difficulty," which is only to be expected considering his extreme surgery, which took 24 hours during which d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    Kenrussell Salvador, Ultrasound Tech, Accused of Raping Patient

    ​A Staten Island sonogram operator is accused of raping a patient while she was under medication. The patient, 30, came to the Richmond University Medical Center on December 11 complaining of abdominal pains and was put on Dilaudid. She was alone with the ultrasound technician, Kenrussell Sal ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2009

    Health alert issued for mumps outbreak in Brooklyn

    ​The city's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has issued an alert (pdf) to healthcare providers in response to a record mumps outbreak in New York and New Jersey. The CDC traced the path of infection back to an asymptomatic 11-year-old boy who carried it from an epidemic in England to an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 15, 2009

    Free flu shots

    ​Saturday's free flu clinics were much more popular than the kids-only version last week, with city officials reporting that more people had been vaccinated by 1 pm than the total number vaccinated last weekend. Shots are available for anyone between 4 and 24, pregnant women, caregivers of in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 24, 2009

    State backs down on mandatory H1N1 shots

    ​New York State is no longer requiring healthcare workers to take the H1N1 vaccine or risk firing, but only because they don't have enough of it.

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    What's The Worst of These Three Hells?

    ​*Jury duty... *An audit... *Or a colonoscopy? I'm guessing the worst of the three is jury duty. Only the biggest dummos with no lives to speak of relish the chance to be packed into a far-downtown room, where you spend several tense days trying to bullshit your way out of every trial. ("My ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2009

    Swine Flu Vaccine PANIC: Do We Have Enough, and Will It Kill Us?

    Swine flu vaccines will be in New York schools next week -- unless they run out: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius admits there's not enough to go around at present. "Demand is ahead of the yield," she says; Senator Joe Lieberman says there are 30 million doses available, as oppo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2009

    NYS healthcare workers get a restraining order against mandatory flu shots

    ​The State Supreme Court granted a restraining order to a public employee's union on Friday blocking an emergency regulation mandating seasonal and H1N1 (swine) flu shots for nurses, doctors, aides, and non-medical personnel who have patient contact. The Public Employees Federation represents ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Daniel Craig at a New York Gay Club!

    ​Yes, he most surely was, as reported in this week's column [CLICK HERE], which is more packed with good stuff than a circuit queen's butt at the Black Party. Read this invigorating opus and you will also learn about:

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    Get Ready for Swine Flu 2 with Dangerous Vaccines, Video Game

    ​Those of us who remember the Swine Flu PANIC of '09 may be interested to learn from the Associated Press that "NYC schools prepare for 2nd outbreak of swine flu." These epidemics historically come in pairs, and the second is usually worse. AP mainly notes anecdotal portents -- "Sharing water ... More >>

  • News

    March 11, 2009

    Bloomberg Turns Over His Next Campaign to Blagojevich's Ex-Deputy

    ​Those of us who remember the Swine Flu PANIC of '09 may be interested to learn from the Associated Press that "NYC schools prepare for 2nd outbreak of swine flu." These epidemics historically come in pairs, and the second is usually worse. AP mainly notes anecdotal portents -- "Sharing water ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2009

    Undertaker Gets Cremated

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2008

    Gov. Paterson Undergoes Glaucoma Operation

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • Film

    January 1, 2008

    The Business of Being Born

    A Newark funeral director has lost his license after being caught in a scheme to harvest the body parts of his clients and sell them to organ tissue banks. Stephen K. Finley, who owns Berardinelli Forest Hill Memorial Home, Cremation at a Low Cost, and Funeraria Santa Cruz, all located in Newark, ha ... More >>

  • News

    September 11, 2007

    Shock and Awe

    The stunning comeback of electroshock and other harrowing treatments for the mentally ill

  • News

    August 21, 2007

    Plastic Surgeon to the Scars

    Brad Jacobs went from shaping Playboy bunnies to defending himself against charges of butchery

  • News

    June 12, 2007

    Shots in the Dark

    New worries about HPV vaccine for kids—other than foes' warnings of promiscuity

  • Columns

    August 15, 2006

    The Slut Shot

    Will the HPV vaccine encourage sexual freedom or right-wing lunatics?

  • News

    May 30, 2006

    See Tom Be Jane

    The country's youngest transgender child is ready for school. But is school ready for her?

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2004

    Daddy Bush's Gulf War Still Makes People Sick

    The country's youngest transgender child is ready for school. But is school ready for her?

  • News

    October 12, 2004

    Down With the Flu

    Bush takes a shot at answering the big question about vaccine

  • News

    November 4, 2003

    The DEA's War on Pain Doctors

    Bush takes a shot at answering the big question about vaccine

  • News

    July 16, 2002

    Hormonal Outrage

    The Menopause Industry's Marginalized Critics Are Finally Proven Right

  • Columns

    May 7, 2002

    Building a Better Cock

    The Menopause Industry's Marginalized Critics Are Finally Proven Right

  • News

    February 12, 2002

    Spin Doctor

    Grim Diagnosis for Times Science Scribe

  • News

    January 1, 2002

    Round Up the Unusual Suspects

    A New Health-Emergency Law Raises Concerns for the Immune Compromised

  • Film

    December 4, 2001

    Reviewer Afraid

    A New Health-Emergency Law Raises Concerns for the Immune Compromised

  • News

    May 15, 2001

    Watts Up

    More New Yorkers Getting Zapped by Court-Ordered Electroshock

  • News

    March 13, 2001

    Magnets Unplugged

    Is the force field for real?

  • News

    October 17, 2000

    'Mujeres' Power

    Tackling Cultural Taboos About Breast Cancer

  • News

    July 11, 2000

    Injecting Big Brother

    New Vaccines May Drug-Proof Kids

  • News

    May 30, 2000

    Harvard Mafia Lives!

    Andersen Taps 'Spy' Lawyer for 'Inside'

  • News

    December 21, 1999

    Dialysis Deals

    Private Companies Lease Space in Public Hospitals

  • News

    December 14, 1999

    Part 6: Ending the Epidemic

    African Prostitutes May Play a Crucial Role in Developing an HIV Vaccine

  • News

    November 23, 1999

    Part 4: The Virus, Past and Future

    There Are Two AIDS Epidemics—and More May Be Coming

  • News

    November 16, 1999

    A Real Man

    Brooklyn girl grows hair on her chest

  • Specials

    November 2, 1999

    Letters

    Brooklyn girl grows hair on her chest

  • News

    October 12, 1999

    Rise of the Vaccine Nation

    'The New Yorker' Joins the Campaign for a Disease-Free America

  • News

    August 24, 1999

    Casualties of War

    In Congo, civil strife allows polio to survive

  • News

    June 30, 1998

    Unsung AIDS Advance

    One Vaccine Breatkthrough Overshadows Another

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