The hidden scandal of unsafe childbirth and the hope that a new professional initiative is bringing to mothers.
Encouraging adolescents with same-sex attractions to identify as gay has no scientific or ethical justification.
Many scientists don't believe that science is the only religion in town.
Is choosing between good science and good ethics a thing of the past?
By covering up a baby-milk scandal, China and a New Zealand partner lose what they hoped to save.
It’s your trauma and you can keep it to yourself if you want to, no harm done, says a psychologist.
Panicking over the obesity epidemic won't help anyone.
Discussion of the African AIDS crisis is riddled with ideology. The evidence shows that utilitarian HIV prevention guidelines are failing.
Psychiatry has typically shunned religion, but a unique forum at one university has them talking to each other - for the sake of the patient.
Why does the medical establishment keep playing down the risks of oral contraceptives?
One of the great cliches of modern journalism is that technology is racing far ahead of morals. A very convenient excuse, says a philosopher.
A palliative care physician remembers an unexpected request from the husband of a dying patient.
Newsweek recently painted a sympathetic portrait of women imprisoned in men's bodies. Such people need a psychiatrist, not a surgeon.
Suicide and the internet make a potent brew, as the work of one of the world's most prominent euthanasia campaigners shows.
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