NFL Team Doctors: In Whose Interest?
Injured NFL players are treated by doctors employed by teams, but a Harvard study claims there is an inherent conflict of interest in that arrangement.
Injured NFL players are treated by doctors employed by teams, but a Harvard study claims there is an inherent conflict of interest in that arrangement.
Some young people have escaped jail by claiming “affluenza:” their wealthy parents instilled no moral compass, so they believed they could do anything without consequence.
Experts discuss a new platform where scientists and public can debate genetic science, and from which education can be disseminated.
A new survey shows more pediatricians are experiencing vaccination refusal, and while the reasons are evolving, they still often result from misinformation.
A physician/Pulitzer-prize-winning author explains what our new knowledge means for our immediate medical future, given our struggles with genetic knowledge in the past.
Diagnostic tests are often less certain in their results than people think, making patients sometimes doubt doctors' competence.
Hospitals have been plagued by shortages of important drugs, sometimes forcing doctors to decide who will receive them and who will die.
Genetic testing has become a widespread reality in the past five years, but doctors are struggling with what many genetic findings really mean.
An author and journalist who has donated twice with vastly different results discusses the technology and what to look out for when approaching egg donation.
Funding of trials has dramatically shifted so that today, trials paid for by pharmaceutical and device makers outnumber publically funded trials 6-to-1. Some studies indicate this makes bias in trials more likely.
Scientists have developed the technology to edit single genes, which could eliminate some inherited diseases.
A expert discusses how the US might regulate potentially toxic chemicals better, and how regulations in other countries could help keep Americans safer.
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