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By Dov Fox Willie Jerome Manning, a 44-year-old black man, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Tuesday for the 1992 kidnapping and murder of white college students Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller in…
By Dov Fox Yesterday, I wrote about Ryan Abbott‘s new article that proposes to use health information exchanges to improve the collection of data about the safety of approved drugs. Today, I want to address his recommendation that the…
By Dov Fox So much new data are created every day that 90 percent of all data worldwide has emerged in just the last two years. This information revolution has the potential, argues Bill of Health guest blogger Ryan…
Dov Fox has an interesting new piece up at HuffPo examining the constitutionality of the abortion restrictions just enacted in North Dakota: As the Supreme Court heard oral arguments this week in the same-sex marriage…
By Dov Fox That’s what CNN called yesterday’s report with science writer Emily Anthes about her new book, Frankenstein’s Cat, which examines “genetically modified this, or cloned that,” as she put it, or “creatures that combine electronic…
A front-page story in today’s Sunday Boston Globe quotes Bill of Health blogger Dov Fox on whether the routine use of new prenatal blood testing could “‘bring a tendency to exclude rather than accommodate people whose abilities fail to meet…
By Dov Fox We’re not talking vasectomies or condoms. Medical Daily reports that the NIH has awarded a $4.7 million grant to come up with a “Pill” for men. Most previous attempts to develop such contraceptives used testosterone…
By Dov Fox Glenn Cohen and I make the case in this morning’s Huffington Post: This week the United Kingdom joined the ranks of countries like Canada, Israel, and Sweden that provide in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatment to citizens under a certain…
By Dov Fox Having a child is hard work. It can be especially taxing—“physically, emotionally, and of course, financi[]ally, to bring a child with [disabilities] . . . into the world and raise it,” as…
