Muddleheaded Medical Meddling
By upholding the partial-birth abortion ban, the Supreme Court lets Congress play doctor.
Medicine
Big Business in Body Parts
Biotech firms make healthy profits from tissue sales. Why not the rest of us?
The Accidental Drug Trafficker
A repudiation of prosecutions that treat doctors' errors in judgment as felonies
The Dose Makes the Cure
Toxicologist Edward Calabrese finds that what does not kill you can make you stronger.
Pill Popping
The debate over whether oral contraceptives should be covered by insurance misses the real point.
No Relief in Sight
Torture, despair, agony, and death are the symptoms of "opiophobia," a well-documented medical syndrome fed by fear, superstition, and the war on drugs. Doctors suffer the syndrome. Patients suffer the consequences.
