In July of 2007, comedian Michael Showalter was at a bar in Park Slope doing stand-up about an unwitting experience he’d had with a prescription drug called Seroquel.
The scenario: Mr. Showalter couldn’t fall asleep one night thanks to some noisy construction outside his Flatbush Avenue apartment, so his girlfriend suggested he take one Read More
Nine years ago, I nearly became a statistic—one of nearly 300,000 women who die every year from the virus that causes cervical cancer.
As a full-fledged cancerphobe whose mother contracted lung cancer at a young age, I’d never missed a pap smear or a mammogram. Yet, ironically, my disease eluded my annual checkup. Instead, Read More
Nine years ago, I nearly became a statistic—one of nearly 300,000 women who die every year from the virus that causes cervical cancer.
As a full-fledged cancerphobe whose mother contracted lung cancer at a young age, I’d never missed a pap smear or a mammogram. Yet, ironically, my disease eluded my annual checkup. Instead, I Read More
George Pataki tells the Times that he is sick of being sick and now, at least two groups have taken shots at our recovering governor.
First, a former FDA official joined Shelly Silver and two of his colleagues to call for the governor to rethink his position on emergency contraception.
“Last year, our Read More
