medicine
Do we actually want human-centered healthcare?
We should leave the human aspects of healthcare to humans, and let AI handle the rest.
The morality play of chronic pain
Will AI help treat pain more effectively, or will it just learn to replicate human biases?
A factory reset for the immune system
Genetic therapy promises a cure for autoimmune disease.
Who comforts the secular?
Hospitals still carry embedded religious assumptions, even as more people than ever are nonbelievers.
An end in sight for Huntington's disease?
Genetic therapy offers hope for a dreaded and previously untreatable disorder.
Vaccine wars
We're about to reap the deadly harvest of anti-science ideology.
New blood
Could artificial blood alleviate the need to donate?
A less crowded future
Almost no one saw this coming.
Biophysicist: Society will 'eventually accept' designer babies
"Why wait 100,000 years for natural selection to do its job?"
Slowing to listen at the end of life
Marcia sat up on the side of the bed, a hand on each knee, and braced herself as she leaned forward to open the space in her chest for more air. At 52, she was dying of ovarian cancer that had spread to her liver. The critical organ had failed,
Narrative medicine: Why stories matter in healthcare
There was a low rumble in the room. I couldn’t hear what anyone was saying above the din, but I feel the excitement in my body even now as my memory-neurons fire. This new batch of future doctors was about to enter terrain more daunting than the fundamentals