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...home medical tests that will check everything from your blood pressure to your HIV status. In an age of managed care and skyrocketing doctor's fees, this niche market is rapidly growing into a multibillion-dollar industry. But before you fork over the cash for an "easy to use" kit, you had better take a look at the fine print...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do It Yourself? | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...AIDS CRISIS TUGGED AT YOUR HEARTSTRINGS, BUT NOT EVERYONE WHO READ OUR STORY AGREED ON WHAT SHOULD BE DONE ABOUT IT. "Why should the U.S. fund Africa's denial when the answer to stopping this disease rests in the Africans' own hands?" an Arizona reader asked. "Is there a kit for castration? I'd gladly take out a loan to finance one," fumed one of our readers in Illinois, who was outraged by a comment from a Botswana truck driver who said he used prostitutes because "I'm human. I'm a man. I have to have sex." Following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 5, 2001 | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

...With my fee I was able to buy a kit for a tiny greenhouse that sits on my deck and is a true Dreamwork," she says...

Author: By Zachary R. Heineman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Latin Professor Who Consulted on | 2/28/2001 | See Source »

...brave new world of inquiry into how the wonderfully pliable cells of seven-day-old embryos behave. Embryonic stem cells eventually turn into every kind of tissue, including brain, muscle, nerve and blood. If scientists could harness their powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, are among those who have pushed Congress to overturn the U.S. government's restrictions on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby, It's You! and You, and You... | 2/26/2001 | See Source »

...brave new world of inquiry into how the wonderfully pliable cells of seven-day-old embryos behave. Embryonic stem cells eventually turn into every kind of tissue, including brain, muscle, nerve and blood. If scientists could harness their powers, these cells could serve as the body's self-repair kit, providing cures for Parkinson's, diabetes, Alzheimer's and paralysis. Actors Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a fall from a horse, and Michael J. Fox, who suffers from Parkinson's, are among those who have pushed Congress to overturn the government's restrictions on federal funding of embryonic-stem-cell research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Cloning: Baby, It's You! And You, And You... | 2/19/2001 | See Source »

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