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TOO MUCH? A protest outside the Novartis headquarters in New York.

Customer care

Science | Doctors are pushing back against skyrocketing drug prices

Developing cloned human embryos

Cloning for the ego, not the science

Science |  This week's announcement that U.S. scientists have created stem cells from cloned human embryos is an achievement we shouldn't be proud of, pro-life medical…

REVERSE COURSE: Cynthia Galvan (left) with her son and boyfriend.
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Cynthia's choice

Abortion |  Meet one of the first women ever to undo her medical abortion—and the doctor who made it possible

Doctors hanging up the stethoscope early because of Obamacare

Doctors hanging up the stethoscope early because of Obamacare

Healthcare |  Last week, politicians who helped craft the Affordable Care Act (ACA) celebrated in self-congratulatory style the third anniversary of that monstrosity which…

VULNERABLE: A 12-year-old Afghan boy suffering from polio waits for treatment at a Red Cross center in Kabul.
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The polio threat

Medicine |  Health workers are making a push to eradicate the virus worldwide, but Islamic militants threaten to end their work

C. Everett Koop
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Conviction and controversy

Health |  Man knows not his time: U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop

Birth control pills could become OTC

Birth control pills could become OTC

Medicine |  Birth control pills are one step closer to being as easy to purchase as aspirin—and according to a Tuesday statement from the nation’s largest group of…

A woman holds a photo of Savita Halappanavar during a candle lit vigil in Belfastl, Northern Ireland.

Ireland’s abortion ban blamed for woman’s death

Abortion |  Pro-abortion advocates are clamoring for Ireland to change its abortion laws after 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar died following a miscarriage. Doctors had…

Election Day discussion at Sportsman's Barbershop in Hot Springs, Ark.

Barbershop banter on medical marijuana measure in Arkansas

Politics |  HOT SPRINGS, Ark.—Arkansas could be the first Southern state to approve medical marijuana. If Issue Five is approved, patients who live more than five miles…

Ambulances line up to evacuate patients from a New York hospital that lost power.

This is what I do

Medicine |  It’s 3 a.m. Thursday, two nights after Superstorm Sandy barreled into Manhattan, and I’m standing in the ornate elevator lobby of New York-Presbyterian…

Harborside Health Center

Oakland sues to keep marijuana dispensary

Courts |  The city of Oakland moved last week to prevent federal law enforcement from closing its biggest marijuana dispensary, the largest pushback since an aggressive…

Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg works with the laser device that helps prepare embryos for implantation
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Boy crazy

Science |  The United States is a new mecca for parents who choose their baby's sex

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