Features
Not Fade Away
Age-related hearing loss is more common than previously believed, especially among the generation raised on rock-and-roll music.
-by Monika Guttman

Build It And They Will Come
Donald Skinner took a fledgling urology program and built it into a world-respected department filled with experts who pioneer ways to maintain the dignity and independence of their patients.
-by Alicia Di Rado

Bloom Where You Are Transplanted
The promise of living a normal life with a total reversal of symptoms is the motivation for people with compromised liver function to get a transplant.
-by Jon Nalick

Rock Solid Science
Whether conquering nature in the laboratory or on a mountain, researcher Robert Chow is up for the challenges of achieving scientific and personal goals.
-by Lori Oliwenstein

Recovery Road
With the number of stroke patients doubling over the next 50 years, researchers are focusing interdisciplinary endeavors on innovative rehabilitation programs to treat survivors.
-by Lori Oliwenstein

Cover Story
Back Talk
Minimally invasive surgery, bioengineering, non-surgical treatments, and even genetic engineering will revolutionize the way physicians treat back pain in the next decade.
-by Alicia Di Rado

Departments
City Rounds
Cancers in the Urban Environment, the first volume of its kind, chronicles cancer occurrence in Los Angeles County and its neighborhoods.

Healthoughts
The latest word on 'winter itch,' runner’s hematuria, older adults' eating habits and birthmarks.

Benchmarks
Dietary fiber's influence on hormones may reduce
breast cancer risk.

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