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. An Italian Town's White (No Foreigners) Christmas
  2. The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
  3. Will the Plan Match the Stagecraft?
  4. Feeling Alone Together: How Loneliness Spreads
  5. Why Ireland Is Running Out of Priests
  6. Is Obama Scaling Back Bush's AIDS Initiative?
  7. Could the White House Party Crashers Go to Jail?
  8. Rachel Uchitel: Tiger Woods' Alleged Mistress
  9. The '00s: Goodbye (at Last) to the Decade from Hell
  10. Full Transcript of Obama's Speech
  1. Feeling Alone Together: How Loneliness Spreads
  2. Paris: 10 Things to Do in 24 Hours
  3. Black Friday
  4. Workers of the World vs. China Inc.
  5. The Growing Backlash Against Overparenting
  6. Having It Both Ways in Advertising
  7. The Draft: K.O. for Cass
  8. The Genetic Revolution
  9. California Judge Challenging Obama on Gay Rights
  10. In Europe, Could the Bear Be Back?