With each new advance in medicine comes ethical dilemmas, from fertility treatments and newborn screening, to vaccinations, gene therapies and…
Articles by Larry Luxner
The world’s biggest gathering of rare disease researchers, patient groups, pharmaceutical executives, and government officials is planned for April 10–12…
About 100 scientists, researchers, pharmaceutical executives, and others will converge on Austria’s capital city early next month for the…
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) patients in China, the world’s most populous nation, finally have their own advocacy organization. The iSEEK…
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Half a year has gone by since disgraced pharma executive Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in federal prison…
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Three years ago, Miloš Lazić taught physical education at a Belgrade elementary school while playing for Serbia’s championship water polo…
Canada’s healthcare system is excellent for people with common ailments like diabetes or high blood pressure, but it’s “basically failing…
As President Trump signed the recently passed Right to Try legislation into law in a White House ceremony, Jordan McLinn…
Should scientists have the right to edit the genes of future generations to eliminate hundreds, if not thousands, of potential…