The survivalist's guide to do-it-yourself medicine By Mary Roach
Come the apocalypse, who will fill your prescriptions?
(12/17/99)

Unhappy meal
How to eat yourself to death.
(12/03/99)

I was a human crash-test dummy
For 15 years, a professor gave his body for human impact-survival research -- and lived to tell the tale.
(11/19/99)

The power of prunes
Growers hope stronger bones and moister meats can replace regularity as the fruit's marketing strategy.
(11/05/99)

Flush of the future
Tokyo's Toto makes toilets that do everything -- whether you want them to or not.
(10/22/99)

Pill talk
October is Talk About Prescriptions Month, and Battery Safety Month, and ...
(10/08/99)

A terrible thing to waste
You do not need brains to go to the Harvard Brain Bank, only a brain.
(09/24/99)

Historically significant tampons
The Museum of Menstruation sustains the flow of knowledge in a little-known field.
(09/10/99)

Sniff me hard, babe
Do bottled sex pheromones work?
(08/27/99)

Living infomercial
Our intrepid reporter checks out cannulas and after-surgery underwear, and sees a banana tattooed!
(08/13/99)

Probed in space
Alien medical-exam waiting rooms don't even have magazines.
(07/30/99)

Lift those weights!
Kegeling promises to help prevent incontinence and "enhance physical intimacy."
(07/16/99)

Why doesn't anyone have dropsy anymore?
The 1899 Merck Manual is being released along with the 1999 version.
(07/02/99)

Bar food
A Mounds addict tastes Clif Bars and finds that they don't taste awful and have lots of vitamins!
(06/18/99)

The third breast
A couple examines its breast together.
(06/04/99)

Bashful bladders
Some people, mostly men, can't pee in public -- or even in their own homes.
(05/21/99)

Delusional halitosis
You think you have bad breath but you don't. Or do you?
(05/07/99)

Lip balm anonymous
When you put it on in your sleep, you have a problem.
(04/23/99)

Living forever
If we all live to be 150, where will we park?
(04/09/99)

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