Health 2003: The Top Ten

摘要

Dramatic advances and frustrating setbacks. In medical research, the biggest challenges are not always the technical ones. A look at the key health stories of the year. It was a year that saw major advances in medicine and health-fields that are ever more complicated and confusing. Cutting-edge technology and new (often contradictory) studies seemed to appear every day, making it hard for readers concerned about their own and their families' health to sort out what was accurate and important. In this special Health for Life section, we report on the year's 10 most important health stories (they're not ranked in any particular order) and offer insights from Harvard Medical School.