Advancing science and medicine for, not on, human beings
Broke, raving, and living out of his van, for years Jack Kevorkian turned away from his first love — experiments with death — to a side quest: bringing Jesus Christ to the big screen.
Hospitals have to interpret new laws. Some are refusing to.
Big Pharma and MAHA are fighting over how to treat childhood obesity. In the meantime, what do we tell our kids?
Making transition the first-line treatment for children was a mistake, many health agencies now say. A growing group of psychologists wants to restore the therapeutic relationship.
Why anesthesiologists need more than reason to talk patients out of the fear of going under
“We aren’t defective, just different” was the 1990s rallying cry of deaf activists who rejected medical fixes. Why have transgender activists argued that only medical tech can make them who they really are?
From cradle to grave, surrogacy to smartphones to gender surgery to euthanasia, Americans are using technology to shortcut human nature — and shortchange ourselves. Here is a new agenda for turning technology away from hacking humans and toward healing them.
In a new book, an eminent psychologist with an “unquiet mind” explores why it often takes one to treat another.
Adderall is America’s new legal drug of choice. Is it fueling the drug crisis?