Medicine
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
Government Says You Can't Overcome Addiction, Contrary to What Government Research Shows
Why does the National Institute on Drug Abuse contradict its own research?
Stem Cell Researchers Claim "Major Scientific Discovery"
Have shown stem cells can be made by dropping blood cells into acid
Grieving Woman Who Has Been Hospitalized Against Her Will is Being Billed
Says she is not ill
Bernie Madoff Has Heart Attack in Prison
Serving 150 year prison sentence for orchestrating largest Ponzi scheme in American history
FDA Warns Against High-Dosage Acetaminophen
Concerns about potential liver damage
Consumers Should Drive Medicine
David Goldhill on America's deadly, dysfunctional health care system
Obama Administration Proposes Removing 'Protected' Status for Some Medicare Drugs
Antidepressants, antipsychotics and drugs used to help with organ transplants
Ex-Okla. City Doctor Charged with Murders for Drug Overdose Deaths
Nine deaths from allegedly excessively high prescriptions
An Increasing Number of Seniors Are Caring For Each Other
29 percent of direct-care workers are projected to be at least 55 year old by 2018
Drug Designed to Treat Epilepsy May Also Block HIV
Researchers want to try it on people
