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Race-Based Medicine: Déjà Vu All Over Again?

Some argue that drugs specifically labeled to treat particular racial groups offer an invaluable way to fight racial disparities in health by targeting at-risk populations. Others claim that race-based medicine inappropriately treats race as a biological cause of racial disparities when broader social and environmental factors may offer better explanations.

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Egg-ceptionally Bad

There’s nothing wrong with taking a study at face value. Especially when the study says something like meadowlarks tend to prefer meadows with orchids over meadows with bluegrass (I made this example up). But when you’re a major news outlet and the study is concluding that eggs, a staple food, are nearly as bad for you as cigarettes, I’d like to see you do some reporting.

Parents who await miraculous cures could be “torturing” their dying children, say doctors

What should doctors do if deeply religious parents want to keep a child alive at any cost, even if the child is suffering and has no chance of survival? In a controversial article in the Journal of Medical Ethics, two paediatricians and the chaplain of Great Ormond Street in London call for changes in the law.

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Is A Male Contraceptive Pill On The Way?

American researchers may have found an effective and hormone-free birth control pill for men.

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A boy is vaccinated against polio in Afghanistan

Pakistan: Polio Vaccination Ban Affects 240,000 Children

Close to a quarter million innocent children are at risk of catching the crippling disease, due to a recent ban on polio inoculation by the Taliban in Pakistan’s FATA (Federally Administrated Tribal Areas) region.

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