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Sharma and colleagues report a randomized clinical trial of human-only or human+AI respondents to people who sought counseling on a...

Will AI replace doctors? Well, it depends what you think doctors ought to be or do. If a doctor is supposed to competently read an EKG,...

From the time it was published, critics of Samuel Shem’s The House of God have been either predicting its death or trying to explain away...

We generally don't think of phenotypes as being "positive" or "negative." With genomics, that is changing. We can now imagine the...

Quick, tell me: who, among the following people, is a bioethicist? Amy Guttman, Jodi Halpern, Pedro Almodovar, Renee Fox, Jodi Picoult,...

Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon says that she resigned because she was exhausted by the pandemic. Others think that the battle...

Richard Powers is the most scientifically savvy novelist at work today. He was one of the first people in the world to have his genome...

Beverly Gage writes about being a patient with a disease so rare that she might be the only person in the world who has it. After...

Looking for some dark comedy? In the opening scene of The Whale, Charlie (Brendan Fraser) clutches his chest in pain while jerking off...

Democratic governments that impose vaccine mandates are often wildly unpopular. Protests against vaccine mandates were strong in 19th...

In a Perspective essay, Paul Offit writes, “We should stop trying to prevent all symptomatic infections in healthy, young people by...

O. Carter Snead’s book, What it Means to Be Human, is really two books. One is an idealistic program for cultural renewal. The other is...