Pharmacuetical

One doctor rethinks his hardline stance against contact with industry. Beyond drugmakers' sales and marketing, perhaps there's room for productive and ethical collaboration to advance medicine.

Despite objections from the American Medical Association, clinicians continue to assist with executions. Sound Medicine's bioethicist Dr. Eric Meslin…

New drugs are usually tested in animals before they're tested in humans. But many of those studies aren't done carefully enough, analysts say. So time and money is wasted, and treatments are delayed.

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