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Doctors have long known that cutting back on salt or sodium can help lower blood pressure in folks with hypertension, a silent condition that increases the risk of heart attack and stroke. What hasn't been so clear is whether reducing the amount of sodium in the diet will benefit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Don't Pass the Salt | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Nine years later, McCormick, now director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, has proof of his sanity in the form of Onyx-015, a virus that works exactly as he envisioned. Last year the company reported results of a clinical trial in which Onyx...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Cancer | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

Drugs will play an even greater role in the near future, says Dr. Valentin Fuster, director of the Cardiovascular Institute at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. For one thing, the wealth of data coming out of the human-genome project will allow physicians to tailor pharmaceutical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hunt For Cures: Heart Disease | 1/15/2001 | See Source »

--DON'T SUFFER IN SILENCE Surveys have shown that many patients don't tell doctors or nurses about their pain for fear of being labeled cranky or difficult or because they assume that their discomfort will go away. And yet, says June Dahl, professor of pharmacology at the University of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feel No Pain | 1/8/2001 | See Source »

Charlie Brown was something new in comics: a real person, with a real psyche and real problems. The reader knew him, knew his fears, sympathized with his sense of inferiority and alienation. When Charlie Brown first confessed, "I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel," he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Passages: The Life and Times of Charles Schulz | 12/28/2000 | See Source »

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