The Year in Medicine 2008

In good times and bad, science doesn't sleep, and every year brings breakthroughs, setbacks, reasons for worry and reasons for joy. TIME's annual alphabetical roundup of a sampling of those stories gives you an overview of the year behind and a hint of what might be in the one ahead.

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  1. The Stolen E-Mails: Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown?
  2. Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew
  3. The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
  4. How Strong Is the Evidence Against Amanda Knox?
  5. Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late
  6. Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting
  7. A Chicago Arrest: Are Pakistani Jihadis Going Global?
  8. Why Has Taiwan's Birthrate Dropped So Low?
  9. Can the Federal Government Really Create Jobs?
  10. The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell
  1. The Stolen E-Mails: Has 'Climategate' Been Overblown?
  2. Parents' Sex Talk with Kids: Too Little, Too Late
  3. Max Baucus and His Women
  4. Why Has Taiwan's Birthrate Dropped So Low?
  5. Humanure: Goodbye, Toilets. Hello, Extreme Composting
  6. Let Down by a Tiger We Never Knew
  7. Five Flawed Assumptions of Obama's Afghan Surge
  8. Astronomers Spy a New Planet-Like Object
  9. Morales' Big Win: Voters Ratify His Remaking of Bolivia
  10. How Tiger Woods Can Survive the Scandal