Promise of world’s first head transplant is truly fake news
As if the moral failures rocking our world were not enough, now comes Italian professor Sergio Canavero to tell us that he will soon be performing the world’s first head...
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Why price heroism? Organ donors can save taxpayers millions. They deserve a break.
At 5 a.m. on the first Friday of April, a perfectly healthy 27-year-old newlywed awoke in a hotel 300 miles from her home and walked into the nearby hospital. There,...
When a patient is a bigot, what can a doctor do?
The video is appalling in its brazenness: a woman in the Canadian city of Mississauga demanding, loudly and repeatedly, that her son receive medical treatment only from a white pediatrician....
The dangers of euthanasia-on-demand
If the Dutch Cabinet gets what it wants, citizens who feel they have a "completed life" soon will be able to request public support for help in ending their lives....
Congress lets abortion politics derail Zika fight
Zika is already in the United States. It is wreaking havoc in Puerto Rico, and cases have been reported in many states. Local mosquitoes will bite some of those already...
Does this face mask make me look dumb?
Should athletes put safety ahead of fashion? Or better yet should fashion in sports reflect a concern for safety? Concussion data is motivating some top pro athletes, including Giancarlo Stanton...
There is no other side to the vaccine debate
Are you at risk to get the measles? Are your kids? Duh, yes — if you are not vaccinated! Commuters on San Francisco's Bay Area Rapid Transit system were exposed...
Technological innovation will thrive under health reform
If you have health insurance, how well do you sleep at night? Mitt Romney and his supporters are trying hard to convince you and 250 million other Americans who have...
OVERREGULATING RESEARCH
The recent tragic death of Jesse Gelsinger in a gene-therapy experiment at the University of Pennsylvania and the response to that death in the media and by the government shows...