A colleague of mine says that when politicians feel the heat, they see the light. And we need to make…
In a world of rationed health care, what standards should we use to determine who lives and who dies? That…
To what lengths will we go to save our child? One new film examines what can happen when we decide…
President Obama made a great selection for the top spot at NIH. Only one problem. The candidate is a Christian.…
It seems one man’s religious freedom is another man’s “ridiculous prejudice.” One government official fumed that Catholic doctors were refusing…
Edgar Hernandez probably doesn’t understand the fuss he created. When the 5-year-old from the Mexican state of Campeche coughed, the…
Note: Since recording this script, the fertility clinic in Los Angeles, which announced in February that it would be allowing…
Imagine inviting some new neighbors to a dinner party. The first couple tells you they’d love to come. But, they…
Francis Galton, the father of eugenics and, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, Charles Darwin’s cousin, hypothesized that monarchs should live longer than other…
There’s a manual which provides mental health professionals with “diagnostic criteria for mental disorders.” I suggest that the manual should…
