Thalidomide (drug)

My mother often said, sometimes as a point of pride, that she was plastered when she went into labor with me. At her favorite restaurant, she had had a couple too many highballs the night I wanted out. At the Catholic hospital where I was delivered, two...

AN EXCERPT FROM:   Chicken Soup for the Soul: Find Your Happiness 101 Inspirational Stories about Finding Your Purpose, Passion, and Joy   Jack Canfield Mark Victor Hansen Amy Newmark   Foreword by Deborah Norville Foreword   Some...

Is the motto of the Food and Drug Administration "safety last" when it comes to the Lap-Band? As my Wednesday column reports, the FDA's approval last week of expanded use of Allergan's silicone weight-loss implant came despite considerable evidence that.....

Geraldine A. Ferraro, the savvy New York Democrat who was embraced as a symbol of women's equality in 1984 when she became the first woman nominated for vice president by a major party, died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She was...

Neurofibromatosis affects one in 3,000 people. It can appear as cafe-au-lait spots and bumps under the skin, or it can lead to complications that include blindness, scoliosis and disfigurement. The Times invited readers to submit questions to Ana Rodarte'...

One's second impression of Thomas Quasthoff is that, like all great singers, he is a fluke of nature. A one-in-a-zillion alignment of lungs, cranial cavity, vocal cords and instinct formed that oaken bass-baritone, pliant and powerful as an archer's bow....