Medicine
Capitalism Spurs Medical Innovation
Efforts to remove the 'profit motive' from medicine is a self-interested move by professional meddlers.
Liberation of Medicine: Ronald Bailey's Lecture in Moscow
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Birth Control Pills Could Be Available Without Doctor's Prescription in Oregon
Proposal would let patients pick up birth control pills at the pharmacy counter.
Bailey Lecturing in Russia and Ukraine on the Liberation of Medicine
How technology is freeing both patients and physicians from the medical industrial complex
Is Addiction a Chronic Brain Disease?
Drug addiction is not caused by the effects of drugs alone.
Is Psychiatry All Better Now?
Gary Greenberg argues just throwing out Freud doesn't cure psychiatry of its ills.
Head Transplant in 2 Years, Proposes Surgeon
Better to be the donor than the recipient in this case
Begging to Die
The curiously circumscribed nature of the suicide right recognized by Canada's Supreme Court
How Cutting-Edge Medicine Might Have Spared Us the Ebola Epidemic
The promise of technical end-runs around government ineptitude
How the Apple Watch Could Help Revolutionize Health Care
The next big political fix for our ailing health care system should be to get out of Silicon Valley's way.
Ebola: 'Dress Rehearsal' or Show Closer?
Rapid biomedical progress will soon make epidemics ancient history
Pregnant Women Warned: Consent to Surgical Birth or Else
As hospitals and courts collude, pregnant women are being excluded from fundamental decisions about how they give birth.
'Corporate Money' Leads to Life-Saving Medical Discoveries
Activists obsessed with "conflict of interest" in science make life more difficult for doctors, and for patients who want cures.
Why Morphine Matters
It's the most significant chemical substance our species has ever encountered.
Truvada: Chill Pill or Party Drug?
A new method of HIV prevention leads to old-school sex-shaming
Why Americans Can't Have Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pills
Those with standing to challenge the pill's prescription status also gain from keeping it that way.
Tort Reform: Should Lawmakers Cap Medical Malpractice Damages?
The Florida Supreme Court draws new attention to a systemic problem.
Kerry Kennedy Found Not Guilty in Drugged Driving Case
Daughter of Robert Kennedy accused of getting behind the wheel after taking Ambien
Should Parents Be Allowed To Know Their Fetus Will Get Alzheimer's?
The moral case for designer babies
