Editors' picks

There's no good way to get rid of scarring, but that might be about to change

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Preschoolers think McDonald's equals yum

War's medical legacy

Stanford faculty and alumni recount their experiences

A peek at playwright Anna Deavere Smith's notebook

One soldier's struggle with the Iraq war's trademark injury

Excerpts from a Vietnamese doctor's wartime diaries

Today's soldiers practice high-tech medicine on the battlefield