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Winter 1998


Health from the hearth



Meet our poster contest winners



Delivering important packages

Pulse


Doing Combat Against Epilepsy
by Gurney Williams III
Radical brain surgery offers epilepsy patients new hope for a normal, seizure-free life.



Midwives Go Mainstream
by Mary Ann Littell
A photo essay about the important role nurse-midwives play in the miracle of birth.



Mesmerizing Medicine
by Merry Sue Baum
How is hypnosis used to decrease anxiety, eliminate pain, and treat a variety of disorders and phobias?



Call for Volunteers


Continuing Education
Ulcerative and Vesiculobullous Oral Mucosal Disease
by David Sirois, MD, PhD



Endpage
Sexual Healing
by Barbara Iozzia
A frank talk with Dr. Richard Cross, the father of "Sex Week."


Cover photo by Dan Katz


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