The price is wrong

The price is wrong

Healthcare | In American healthcare, list prices vary by thousands of dollars and yet patients have little incentive to shop around

Primary concerns
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Primary concerns

Healthcare |  When Arizona and New Mexico became states in 1912, Kansas became the geographic center of the United States. When Alaska and Hawaii became states in 1959…

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Deadly substitute

Medicine |  Abortionists use lethal injections as an end run on partial-birth abortion ban

Disaster medicine
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Disaster medicine

Medicine |  Medical establishment circles its wagons around New Orleans physician who administered lethal drugs

Deadly drugs
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Deadly drugs

Medicine |  Babies' deaths raise debate about fertility treatments

Honeymoon's over
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Honeymoon's over

Medicine |  Scare over groom's TB is just the beginning for fellow travelers

Covenant of trust

Health |  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now dealing with the very scenario it warned might happen if global TB surveillance did not improve

Human catastrophe
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Human catastrophe

Public Health |  Far from going the way of the sanitarium and the tenement house, tuberculosis has found a drug-resistant new life of its own

Parental guidance
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Parental guidance

Medicine |  States and drug companies back down on vaccine mandates

Mind control
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Mind control

Medicine |  Researchers say belief and behavior cause changes to the brain

After Dolly
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After Dolly

Cloning |  Ten years since their first success, cloning experts operate in an ethical no man's land

Paternity test
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Paternity test

Medicine |  Birth control: Will men remember to take pills?

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