Bridie Carroll, a Broadway performer who has Type 1 diabetes, tells us about her experience getting misdiagnosed with Type 2 via email while on a touring show of “Wicked.”
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Anxiety Disorders Diagnosed More Often in Women Than Men
June 19th, 2012 
Melinda Beck Women are twice as likely as men to be diagnosed with anxiety disorders—and the reasons range from hormonal fluctuations to brain chemistry to upbringing to empathy, researchers theorize.
A.M. Vitals: Cheaper Blood Thinner Prompts Debate
May 29th, 2012 Robert Lee Hotz Also: Pacific Bluefin tuna carried radioactive cesium from Fukushima, Japan, to California waters last year. There may be no public health risk but it raises the possibility that other migrating sea life carried traces of radioactivity from the nuclear…
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Comments OffSeeking the Line Between Grieving and Depression
May 8th, 2012 Shirley S. Wang Should grieving people be considered clinically depressed? Kay Jamison, who has written about struggling with bipolar disorder, weighed in on that knotty question today.