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The award-winning film Emilia Perez  addresses a central question in gender medicine.  When a patient wants to transition, is it because...

Charles Baxter’s novel Blood Test  tells the story of Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman, Sunday school teacher, and father of two...

How did in vitro fertilization (IVF) transform itself in the public mind from a morally disreputable practice to an essential medical...

I was thrilled to have the opportunity to speak at the Uehiro Oxford Institute ( https://www.uehiro.ox.ac.uk/ ) about some of the work ...

Since 2017, the number of patients diagnosed with gender dysphoria  (GD) nearly tripled, the average age of patients receiving this...

NR (as he is named in UK court documents) was born in 2020 with a malformed brain. He had, callosal agenesis, cortical dysgyria,...

The controversy over Algerian boxer Imane Khalif couldn’t help but remind me of the great Finnish Nordic skier, Eero Mäntyranta . ...

In their book, The Courage to Fail , Renee Fox and Judith Swazey describe the tension at the heart of research regulation.  “Research...

Carl Elliot suggests that whistleblowers are motivated by honor, rather than by concepts like human rights or professional ethics. He...

Dear reader, I have become sort of obsessed with Carl Elliott’s new book.  In it, he writes of his own experiences as a medical...

Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in different countries take different approaches to decisions about forgoing life sustaining...

When I was fifteen, there were only two options for buying condoms. They were available from vending machines in the men’s rooms of some...