Cellular Dynamics International (CDI), a Madison, Wisconsin-based company, has been award a $1.2 million contract from the National Eye Institute to engineer stem cells acquired ethically for potential treatment of macular degeneration. The Eye Institute, which is part of the National Institutes ...

We all need to do our part in ensuring people know the facts. Sonya’s Law is all about the health of both mothers and babies.

Michael Landon, the hugely popular television star of Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie, and Highway to Heaven, died in 1991 at age fifty-four. Landon’s last act—if you will—was widely hailed as his best: He publicly announced his diagnosis with terminal pancreatic cancer, ...

I wasn’t going to write about the Brittany Maynard assisted suicide frenzy. Maynard is apparently dying of brain cancer at age 29, and has decided to mount a pro-assisted suicide campaign, announcing she will kill herself on November 1. I wasn’t going to write about Maynard because I ...

Over the years we’ve run dozens and dozens of stories about the ghastly practice of sex-selective abortions and how the sex-ratio imbalances that result are completely disrupting countries such as India. CNN recently ran a terrific piece written by Carl Gierstorfer. He is described as ...