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.
Illustration for TIME by Viktor Koen
From A to Z
By Alice Park, David Bjerklie, Carolyn Sayre, Tiffany Sharples, Bryan Walsh and Alexandra Silver More »
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America's Health Checkup
TIME takes the entire nation to the doctor More »
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Reform's Moment May Be Now
It's no slam dunk, but Obama's health-care plan has a fair shot at success More »
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5 Truths About Health Care in America
Forget about what you thought you knew about America's health care. More »
Lists by Topic
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- How 'Shadow Inventory' Is Killing the Housing Market
- Top 10 Sources of Salt in Your Diet
- Mo. Teen Gets Life Sentence in Murder
- Syria Under Siege: Photographs by Alessio Romenzi
- African-American Soldiers in the Civil War
- Santorum Stuns Romney with Three-State Sweep, Stealing Momentum in GOP Race
- The New Upper Class and the Real Reason We Dislike Them
- The Gay-Marriage Decision: Is It Too Narrow to Reach the Supreme Court?
- Missouri Teen Described as Thrill Killer
- Ellen DeGeneres Addresses Anti-Gay 'One Million Moms' Group
- The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself
- The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)
- Haiti Papers Over the Past: The Rebranding of 'Baby Doc' Duvalier
- The Gay-Marriage Decision: Is It Too Narrow to Reach the Supreme Court?
- Why Energy Efficiency Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be
- San Francisco: 10 Things to Do
- No More Tears
- Last Known WWI Vet Florence Green Dies
- The Horrors of Miramonte: After an L.A. School's Sex-Abuse Scandal, Can the Children Be Healed?
- What a Real-Time Copy of the Mona Lisa Reveals About Leonardo
