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More Americans are turning to surrogacy to build their families, as the practice becomes more common and more publicly discussed.

Why it matters: As surrogacy becomes more visible and accessible, ethical, legal and cultural tensions become harder to ignore...

This is the first part of the 14th 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. The series is organized by...

Without a federal law, surrogacy in the U.S. is governed by a patchwork of state regulations/

Why it matters: Confusing...

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

NEJM
By Paul A. Lombardo, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.02.2024

In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...

DNA
By Manuel Ansede, El País | 03.01.2024

A team of Italian researchers has reached a major scientific milestone, heralding a revolution in the field of medicine. The...

Eugenics
By Anne Rumberger and Marcy Darnovsky, Science for the People | 02.29.2024

Eugenics is widely regarded as a debunked pseudoscience—developed and promoted mostly in Nazi Germany—that fell off the political radar after...

Stem cells
By Ramon Antonio Vargas, The Guardian | 02.28.2024

Doctors say a man in California who contracted blood cancer while living with HIV is in remission from both potentially...

Genes
By Max Kozlov, Nature | 02.23.2024

Some geneticists have expressed their unease about a figure in a high-profile Nature paper that was published earlier this week...

IVF on microscopic level
By Mary Ziegler, Naomi Cahn, and Sonia Suter, MSNBC | 02.22.2024

This decision will affect the millions of people who become pregnant each year, their families, and their health care providers...

Map of Ukraine
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 02.22.2024

In the years leading up to Russia’s invasion, Ukraine had become a burgeoning hub of clinical trials, particularly in oncology...

IVF Petrie Dish
By David Sable, STAT | 02.22.2024

Imagine having 15 miscarriages.

Maybe you can shrug off the first one or two and keep trying to have children...