Golin, a Chicago editor/publisher, became the first assistant editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association who was not a physician. The youngest of 10 children of Russian immigrants, Golin has had many adventures including flying the Himalayan “hump” as an aviator in Burma and China during World War II.

What's the reality behind the depiction of health care presented on the hit Fox TV series "House" ... and why should we care about the fictional tales? Former CNN Medical Correspondent Andrew Holtz, MPH looks at the nuggets of truth in episodes of "House" and evidence that these stories may well influence how people feel about not only their own health care, but also public issues including health care reform.

The anti-aging industry used to revolve around powder and paint — subtle agents to enhance beauty and help one age gracefully. Now, the business has been overrun by steroids, human growth hormone injections, plant-based "bio-identical" hormones, and endless web ads for red-wine extract. An associate editor at Business Week, Weintraub investigated anti-aging marketing from the Internet promoters behind the rise of acai berries to the backrooms of local pharmacies where made-to-order, nonregulated compounds are produced.

The popular picture of the Dark Ages is wrong, according to Brown, a Vermont freelance. "The earth wasn't flat. People weren't terrified that the world would end at the turn of the millennium," she writes. "Christians didn't believe Muslims and Jews were their mortal enemies. The Church wasn't anti-science." In fact, the pope in the year 1000 was the leading mathematician and astronomer of his day. His name was Gerbert of Aurillac and he was known during his lifetime as "The Scientist Pope."