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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Carl Elliott, Medium | 07.28.2014
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Two years ago, on a gray January afternoon, I visited the Ridge Avenue homeless shelter in Philadelphia. I...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 07.28.2014
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The Government has been accused of misleading the public over the introduction of a new in vitro fertilisation...

By Bridie Smith, Sydney Morning Herald | 07.28.2014
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Authorities are warning of the risks of unproven stem cell treatments available in Australia and overseas after the...

By Bridie Smith, Sydney Morning Herald | 07.28.2014
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Authorities are warning of the risks of unproven stem cell treatments available in Australia and overseas after the...

By Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 07.27.2014
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CANCÚN, Mexico — Rudy Rupak, the founder of Planet Hospital, a medical tourism company based in California...

By Elisabetta Povoledo, The New York Times | 07.26.2014
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ROME — The body of Yara Gambirasio, a 13-year-old student, was found on a chilly day in a...

By Jessica Barrett, Calgary Herald [Canada] | 07.25.2014
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A Calgary woman says she was shocked to learn of a policy at the city’s only fertility treatment...

By George Dvorsky, io9 | 07.25.2014
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It's the ultimate baseline study — an effort to collect the fullest picture of what a healthy human...