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 Pentagon Prepares for a Missile Attack from 'Iran'
  2. Israel vs. Hizballah: Drumbeats of War
  3. Top Stocks of the Decade: What the Winners Tell Us
  4. Health Reform's Senate Win: Did Reid Make It Tougher Than It Had to Be?
  5. Snow Job for the Avatar Opening?
  6. Agent Orange Poisons New Generations in Vietnam
  7. The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell
  8. Iran's Opposition Loses a Mentor But Gains a Martyr
  9. Sarkozy Stands By France's Hated Immigration Minister
  10. Have Yourself a Sandinista Christmas...
  1. U.S. Companies Shut Out as Iraq Auctions Its Oil Fields
  2. Super-Earth: Astronomers Find a Watery New Planet
  3. Agent Orange Poisons New Generations in Vietnam
  4. Top Stocks of the Decade: What the Winners Tell Us
  5. Church Group Attacks Christmas Commercialism
  6. Autism Numbers Are Rising. The Question is Why?
  7. In Nigeria, an Ailing President and Peace Process
  8. Have Yourself a Sandinista Christmas...
  9. The Pentagon Prepares for a Missile Attack from 'Iran'
  10. Health Reform's Senate Win: Did Reid Make It Tougher Than It Had to Be?