Health

The appearance of a cruelty-free execution has always been just that: a carefully-crafted appearance.

The implications of the biotechnology revolution in agriculture go well beyond the United States.

Yesterday, a bill failed to pass the Colorado House State, Veterans, and Military Affairs committee that would have added post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to the list of "debilitating medical …

Narrative medicine - with its focus on the individual patient as a person with specific pains, pasts, and agency - has become increasingly popular as a pedagogical tool.

The Obama administration is talking up the possibility of using presidential clemency powers to release some prisoners, but this is not the beginning of a rollback of America's prison …

Vermont is poised to become the first state to require the labeling of genetically modified organisms in food products.

Pharmaceutical companies, with the help of the US government, are now coercing countries to adopt more stringent intellectual property protection.

A new report commissioned by Prime Minister David Cameron suggests that GMOs have now been shown to be safe and that the UK may need to grow them in …

Mr. Robock tells Paul Jay he's a skeptic who tries to be critical and then makes conclusions based on the evidence.

Every kid in the US could have a free public college education right now if George W. Bush hadn't been such a war monger.