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A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a TED talk at Indiana University. I chose to talk about the many changes that have...

The controversy about brain death really pisses some people off. Doctors, in particular, are likely to reject the idea that there is...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks vaccines kill children and cause brain damage. He thinks they continue to be given only because of a massive...

A few years ago, when a Kansas City museum was about to open one of those wildly popular exhibitions of carefully dissected and cleverly...

I like to read books that explore the ways that doctors balance their idealism, their selfishness, and their need for emotional numbness....

I wrote last week about the deliberations at an FDA Advisory Committee meeting about an innovative gene therapy treatment for Duchenne...

The recent meeting of an FDA Advisory Committee charged with making a recommendation about an innovative gene therapy for the treatment...

A strange paper recently appeared in Nature, reporting that some (“fewer than five”) babies had been born in the UK following a...

Last week, I wrote about the Republican women who stopped a life-begins-at-conception ban on abortions in South Carolina. They have...

Roe v. Wade created a strange situation in American democracy. Politicians could posture against abortion without having to face the...

The idea of “ectogenesis” – growing babies outside the womb - has fired imaginations for over a century. In 1923, biochemist JBS Haldane...

Philosopher Dan Brudney explored the implications the simple statement that pregnancy is not a disease. The paper is particularly...