Dec 4th, 2008 · More than 50 student groups across the country are performing Jonathan Larson's edgy rock opera Rent this school year. Like the Broadway show, Rent School Edition is centered on a group of friends in the 1990s dealing with AIDS, gender identity, homosexuality, drug addiction and poverty.
Dec 4th, 2008 · El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico are economically tightly intertwined. The economic downturn in the U.S. is hurting the hundreds of assembly plants just across the border as a raging drug war that's killed some 1,400 people in Juarez this year is squashing tourism.
Dec 3rd, 2008 · The Cleveland Clinic plans to begin reporting the business relationships that its 1,800 staff doctors and scientists have with drug and device makers. The clinic says it will make a complete disclosure of doctors' and researchers' financial ties available on its Web site.
Dec 1st, 2008 · Controlling immigration at the border between Mexico and the U.S. is proving challenging as drug cartels, money, gang violence and politics clash with a potentially idyllic and green city just south of San Diego. Tijuana is suffering as a result of the violence, officials say.
Nov 25th, 2008 · The host of the radio show The Infinite Mind has been criticized recently for failing to disclose payments from drug companies.
Nov 14th, 2008 · A study in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the drug Crestor, typically used for reducing cholesterol levels, may reduce the risk of heart disease for people with normal cholesterol levels. But do the potential benefits offset the risks and cost of the drugs?
Nov 12th, 2008 · This week's new study showing that a cholesterol-lowering statin drug can cut the risk of heart attack or stroke has opened up a debate over how aggressive doctors and patients should be when it comes to using statins — and who should take them.
Nov 11th, 2008 · This week, we are presenting a radio comic strip about the new economy. In part two, a middle class family experiments with "how to be poor."