Just Put Your Face in the Little Box and Say ‘Aah’

AT 23, Alison Muckle never worried about crows’-feet or sunspots. So a year ago, when her sister, Zoe Morel, then 27, suggested that they get a free skin analysis at a Sephora outpost, she said sure.

A Health Dept.’s Quandary: Warn the Public or Supervise the Doctor?

Days after a cluster of hepatitis cases in 2002 led health investigators to a clinic in Norman, Okla., the state’s chief epidemiologist held a news conference to urge anyone who had been a patient there to get tested immediately for blood-borne diseases. A nurse’s improper use of syringes was said to be the cause.