The Search for a Male Contraceptive That Men Might Not Mind

By PAM BELLUCK 4:29 PM ET

Kevin P. Casey for The New York Times

Steve Owens of Seattle volunteered to help test different male contraceptives and found some more to his liking than others.

Male contraceptives are attracting growing interest from scientists, who believe they hold promise for being safe, effective and, also important, reversible.

The eight students at the University of Kansas medical school in Salina on Friday. Front, from left, Rany Gilpatrick, Claire Hinrichsen and Sara Ritterling; second row, Kayla Johnson, Erik Dill and Tyson Wisinger; back, Jill Corpstein and Daniel Linville.

Small-Town Doctors Made in a Small Kansas Town

By A. G. SULZBERGER

As rural Kansas struggles with a shortage of doctors, a new medical school opened in Salina, with eight students who pledged to start their practices in small towns.

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Tuition Refunds, but Not Quite on Equal Terms

By RON LIEBER

Sallie Mae offers tuition refund insurance policies for students who become ill and must withdraw from college, but they pay out only 75 percent if the cause is mental illness.

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Recipes for Health

Yogurt Soup With Spelt, Cucumbers and Watercress

By MARTHA ROSE SHULMAN

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times

This chilled summer soup has an unusual crunchy texture.

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Lawsuits and Intrigue Over 3M Diagnostic Test

By BARRY MEIER

A suit over a test to be marketed by 3M has escalated into a legal morass ensnaring 3M’s chief executive, Britain’s secretary of defense and a Washington lawyer.

Lilly Profit Skids as It Prepares for Patent Expirations

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Despite a 11 percent drop in profit at Eli Lilly, revenue rose 9 percent and the company increased its earnings forecast.

F.D.A. Issues Alerts on the Heart Drug Multaq

By DUFF WILSON

The F.D.A. cautioned against using Multaq for a long-term form of atrial fibrillation.

Decoding DNA With Semiconductors

By NICHOLAS WADE

Christopher Capozziello for The New York Times

The inventor Jonathan Rothberg with a semiconductor chip used in the Ion Torrent machine.

The new Ion Torrent machine costs $49,000 and takes just two hours to sequence DNA, but its inventor says it will take years to make sense of much of the data it reveals.

Despite Risk, Embalmers Still Embrace Preservative

By ANDREW MARTIN

While the chemical was recently labeled a carcinogen, undertakers insist nothing else preserves the body well enough for public viewing or for shipping.

Study Links Male Infertility to a Missing Protein

By PAM BELLUCK

The absence of a protein that coats sperm and allows them to reach an egg more easily could be the potential cause for unexplained cases of male infertility.

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Expert Answers on Stargardt's Disease

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

Dr. Stephen Rose of the Foundation Fighting Blindness responds to reader questions about Stargardt's disease.

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The Times's fitness guinea pig, Karen Barrow, tries a Figure 4 barre workout. For more Gym Class videos, go to nytimes.com/well.

Charlotte Isen wears glasses with a built in magnifying glass, which she uses when she is playing cards.

Interactive Feature: Patient Voices: Macular Degeneration

How would your life be different if you couldn’t read a book, see your spouse’s face or drive? Here, six men and women speak about their lives with progressive vision loss.