Viagra’s Success Spotlights the Dark Side of Sex
The Wall Street Journal
Nancy Ann Jeffrey and Rochelle Sharpe
As a million men have rushed to take the impotence pill Viagra in its just nine weeks on the market, the biggest drug craze since Prozac is spotlighting a new medical risk
Continue readingStaking Claims: One Effect of a Law On Diet Supplements Is Leaner Regulation
The Wall Street Journal
Rochelle Sharpe
With Web Site, Smart Ads And Supplier, One Man Scores on a `Stud Pill’ — Five Cops vs. 20,000 Products
Continue readingPainkiller: How a Drug Approved By the FDA Turned Into a Lethal Failure
The Wall Street Journal
Rochelle Sharpe
Despite Early Doubts, Duract Carried a Mild Warning; Then, Some Patients Died — `A Lot of Wishful Thinking’
Continue readingThe 20 Most Life-Changing Medical Breakthroughs Of 2017
Prevention Magazine
Rochelle Sharpe
Research scientists around the world have been working on new medical treatments that will improve millions of lives.
Continue readingDrugs: Look-Alike Names Lead to Drug Mix-Ups
The Wall Street Journal
Rochelle Sharpe
Drug names can be hazardous to your health — and to pharmaceutical companies, too.
Continue readingDoctors Misdiagnose 1 in 10 Patients – Here’s How to Protect Yourself
Prevention Magazine
Rochelle Sharpe
Denise Cornwell had felt the lumps for years.
Continue readingHeart testing bill signed by Perry required unnecessary tests, critics charge
The Center for Public Integrity
Rochelle Sharpe
Texas governor is harsh critic of Obamacare, but Lone Star state among nation’s leaders in health insurance mandates
Continue readingBaby M Winner
The New Republic
Malcolm Gladwell and Rochelle Sharpe
There will be only one winner in the Baby M surrogate motherhood case now being fought in a New Jersey courthouse: a lawyer from Dearborn, Michigan, named Noel P. Keane.
Continue readingAre You First-Gen? Depends on Who’s Asking
The New York Times
Rochelle Sharpe
Trying to help a high school senior get into his dream school, Laurie Kopp Weingarten called the college to emphasize that the boy should be able to lay claim to the latest, and fuzziest, of all admissions hooks: being a first-generation student.
Continue readingShy woman rises to become a symbol: Jane Roe speaks out to save ‘her law’
Gannett News Service
Rochelle Sharpe
Norma McCorvey spent so many years hiding her identity, she has trouble convincing people that she exists.
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