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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...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

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

By Jo Macfarlane, The Daily Mail | 04.24.2010

The number of blunders made at IVF clinics has nearly doubled in the past 12 months.

The serious mistakes, which...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 04.23.2010

The cultural gap between the impoverished Havasupai Indians who view their blood as sacred and the Arizona State University researchers...

By Anna Salleh, ABC (Australia) | 04.23.2010

A landmark US court ruling against gene patents has reignited debate on the issue in Australia just weeks before the...

By Rob Waters, Bloomberg Businessweek | 04.22.2010
Jean Erickson, a former preschool director, suffers from Parkinson's disease. Her mobility was improved when doctors drilled a hole into...
By Professor Bill Ledger, BBC News | 04.21.2010

VIEWPOINT

Professor Bill Ledger, Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Sheffield University

During the 90s multiple births rose as doctors implanted...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 04.21.2010

A settlement between 41 members of the Havasupai Indian tribe and Arizona State University highlights the risk researchers take when...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.20.2010

Two respected board members of a controversial federal agency have unexpectedly quit, raising new questions about a three-year-old organization that...

By AP, Associated Press | 04.19.2010

LONDON - An influential British medical think tank is tackling the question of how far society should go to boost...