Is this a performance drug that could actually increase the fairness of Olympic contests?

• Carl Elliott
• August 2008 Issue

As America turns its health-care system over to the market, pharmaceutical reps are wielding more and more influence—and the line between them and doctors is beginning to blur

• Carl Elliott
• April 2006 Issue

The phenomenon is not as rare as one might think: healthy people deliberately setting out to rid themselves of one or more of their limbs, with or without a surgeon's help. Why do pathologies sometimes arise as if from nowhere? Can the mere description of a condition make it contagious?

• Carl Elliott
• December 2000 Issue