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He will probably be in charge of dismantling Obamacare Dr Tom Price, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services, has received...

Birth rate stays stubbornly low China's recently introduced universal two-child policy is predicted to have a relatively small effect on population growth, with a likely...

Should governments subsidize a drug for healthy people? When a conservative Christian journalist writes a story about a highly-praised AIDS drug headlined “Killing Grandma for...

Mutilation and cosmetic surgery The World Health Organization reports that more than 200 million girls and women currently have been subjected to female genital mutilation/cutting...

Bioethicists table strategies for reducing greenhouse gases Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich popularized the formula I=PxAxT in his race to defuse the Population Bomb. It meant...

How many hundreds of babies were stolen from their parents in the early days of Israel?Yemenite immigrants in a camp in 1950      Stealing...

Critics argue that this penalty is ineffective A protest against sexual violence in Jakarta earlier this month.     Chemical castration will be a sentencing option...

Bioethicists claim that fear-based public health campaigns are effective and not necessarily stigmatising In 2010 the New York City Department of Health launched a grisly...

Let them choose for themselves Boys should not be circumcised until they are old enough to choose for themselves, a British judge has suggested in...

A mysterious illness spreads among refugee children.Ernada Hidanovic and her son Armando, refugees in Sweden / Paul Madej       The political and policing...

Concussion scares lead to changed coaching Dartmouth clashes with Yale in 2009 (AP Photo/Bob Child)    In January Steven H. Miles and Shailendra Prasada argued in...