As eventful as 2024 has been regarding the law and bioethics of scientific matters, 2025 promises to be even more “exciting,” ...

This week, despite the holiday cheer, I have been drawn to true crime – perhaps to avoid navigating the politics of family ...

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Hospital gown – equal parts wardrobe malfunction and psychological assault – somehow managing to make even the healthiest ...

Does fructose, one of today's boogeymen, cause cancer? According to a fascinating paper in Nature, it does so in cultured ...

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The science community is in an uproar over the probability that Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., will head the Department of Health ...