I'll admit that I was surprised to find, when I closed the book, that childbirth had not made an
appearance. My own practice as a family doctor means that the delivery room is one of the …

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insisted he not be given any “nigger blood.” We scoff at this now, but consider how future …

I'll admit that I was surprised to find, when I closed the book, that childbirth had not made an
appearance. My own practice as a family doctor means that the delivery room is one of the …

ABSTRACT “It was just a few small red dots,” I would recount to innumerable sympathetic
nurses. They—the dots, not nurses—clustered together on my son's smooth slim neck. I …

If you have lived to be fifty, and don't mind going down the memory lane, even if briefly, you
would readily agree that a striking change has overtaken the medical profession. The …

Bioethics is the ethics, the 'what we should do and what we should not do'of human biology
and medicine. It is a subject which is constantly changing, and which is constantly in the …

Notre Dame professor R. Scott Appleby, in delineating the qualities of the next pontiff,
singled out the fact that the pope of the future must be able to proclaim the gospel to …

This is also on stem cells, and is offered with apologies for spoiling your fun if you really like
the junk food produced by Robert's American Gourmet. Robert's got in trouble when they …

RICK JEPSON is a registered nurse and head of dialysis at Utah Valley Regional Medical
Center. He is the editor of Sunstone's “Bounds and Conditions” column, which features …

Biomedical science in the 20th century was largely a descriptive and reductionist enterprise.
The characterization of isolated cellular components produced a series of important …