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Archive: Summer 2006

Features
	Out of Despair For 100,000 depressed patients each year, electroconvulsive therapy has been the last best hope. Now options are expanding. Full text \| pdf (1.23 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	Medicine Gets Personal Understanding the patient’s genetic makeup is leading to better, more precisely targeted treatments. Full text \| pdf (1.31 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	Understanding Anesthesia The waning of consciousness during surgery is as mysterious as it is routine. Finally, the curtain may be about to part. Full text \| pdf (2.28 MB) \| printer-friendly version

	The Placebo Problem In some trials, subjects have responded just as well to sugar pills as they have to real treatment. So how can we trust any trial results? Full text \| pdf (980 KB) \| printer-friendly version

	An Epidemic of Excess The link between obesity and diabetes is well established. But it’s not the only reason for the skyrocketing incidence of the disease. Full text \| pdf (1.05 MB) \| printer-friendly version

Stat & Post-op

	Interview Debora Spar: In Praise of Rules

	Infographic // Wrong Number One data set, three measures of risk

	Excerpt Cheating Science

	Advances Lab-grown bladders, hunger's impact on memory

	On the Blogs // The Costs of Care

	Post Op // First Person The Kid Inventor

	Stat Teeming with millions of species, coral reefs provide fertile ground for the discovery of molecules...

	By the Numbers // Generic Drugs

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

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Photo by Age Fotostock/Superstock; Photo by Dennis Kleiman; Infographic by Flying Chilli; Photo by Jed Wilcox; Illustration by the Heads of State;
Photo by David Doubilet