LONDON: We are in the midst of a revolution in health care — or so some leading scientists tell us.
Francis Collins, Director of the United States' National Institutes of Health, guides us through the upheaval in his new book The Language of Life (...)
LONDON: If you were hoping to pick up a DNA kit along with your shampoo from the drugstore, you would be out of luck. The United States Food and Drug Administration recently warned the giant pharmacy chain Walgreen's to think twice before stocking (...)
LONDON: In early February 2010, a United States federal district court in New York began deciding a landmark case as to whether individuals have a "right to know about how their own genomes can dictate their future health. The case, American Civil (...)
In the 1960's, feminists coined the slogan "Our bodies, our selves. But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic twist. As an anonymous American woman, justifying her decision to undergo cosmetic surgery, put it, "All we have in (...)
