My path to real estate riches began on the New York subway, when I grabbed a copy of a free daily rag one morning to read on the way to work.

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Regulatory schmegalatory. It's difficult to disclose inequities. People in positions of power bury truth ALL THE TIME. Whistleblowing, as it is called, is painful and destructive to the individual who attempts to bring forth evidence. Kudos for the tenacity.

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House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) didn't rule out the the idea of a second stimulus package and said Wednesday he would be willing to sit down with the White House and congressional Democrats to discuss any new emergency spending proposals.

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"Experts will tell you that hydrogen has the biggest possibility to replace fossil fuels," Draeger explained, as the wine flowed. "Please see the Hydrogen 7 as an offer.

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Programs teaching U.S. schoolchildren to abstain from sex have not cut teen pregnancies or sexually transmitted diseases or delayed the age at which sex begins, health groups told Congress on Wednesday.

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The disease often starts with pain in the legs, arms and spine. But babies with rickets can't tell anyone about the pain, so it's usually a seizure, a broken bone or the characteristic bowed legs that finally trigger a diagnosis.

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This is a perfect example of a broken healthcare system. This company is making a lot of good families broke. If you're on medicaid or welfare these shots are free.

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Trying to shut down a federal fugitive's medical-device empire, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is blocking the import of the machine he claims can cure diseases such as cancer and AIDS.

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Calling it a threat to public safety, the Washington State Chiropractic Association wants to ban an unproven medical device that purportedly can diagnose and cure disease.

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The British subsidiary of one of the world's biggest marketing groups was accused yesterday of breaking company law by "selling a dream" of unachievable wealth.

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Their teenager was facing an excruciating death from cancer. His parents searched frantically for a way to ease his pain.

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Some gadgets change the world. Others don't. These ones, however, are very effective at one thing in particular: teleporting money out of customers' pockets.

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For anyone going to the tiny yellow building in Issaquah last year to get treatments from the PAP-IMI machine, a warning sign attached to the device was hardly reassuring: "Attention. Do not let device and probe overheat. Allow cooling.

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A young mother in Los Angeles was desperate. A rare form of cancer was ravaging her 5-month-old son. Their doctor said chemotherapy offered the best hope for survival, a 1-in-4 chance.

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A Seattle Times Special Report: Part 1 MIRACLE MACHINES:The 21st-Century Snake Oil:

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They can cure cancer, reduce cholesterol, end allergies, treat cavities, kill parasites and even eliminate AIDS. "Energy medicine" devices can be as small as a television remote control, or as large as a steamer trunk.

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For centuries snake oil has been a folk remedy in Chinese medicine, used primarily to treat joint pain such as arthritis and bursitis. Its introduction to the U.S.

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Along with cashmere romper suits and baby nail clippers, here is another thing for new parents to add to the "don't waste your money" list: those baby DVDs and videos which claim to give infants a boost in learning language.

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Snake Oil Science

In life there are various shades of gullibility and naivety. There are those people who need not take precautions in life because bad things only happen to bad people. Then there is the category of person who is taken in by the "because it's science" argument.

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Supplements lose luster after studies question claims

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