A new piece by contributor Art Caplan in Forbes: Bet you did not know that today is National DNA Day. It is. But before we all begin to party over our biological programming, remember this is also the day when the world is trying to figure out how to respond to a paper from a team…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan along with Tom Mayo in The Dallas Morning News: This week, the Texas Legislature considered restoring to pregnant women a right every other adult Texan already enjoys: the right to make health-care treatment decisions in an advance directive or through the next-of-kin who speaks for them. House Bill 3183…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: Nick Loeb and Sofia Vergara once were a huge item. Today, they are back in the tabloid press because of a dispute over frozen, human embryos. The 42-year-old actress and star of “Modern Family,” one of the top-earning women in Hollywood, announced her engagement to the…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: Berlin school teacher Annegret Raunigk is proudly prolific and, at age 65, not done making babies — pregnant with quadruplets that would enlarge her family from 13 to 17 children. Why? Raunigk said she became pregnant again because her 9-year-old daughter asked for a younger sibling….
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on Today Health: Terri Schiavo died 10 years ago today — not long after her feeding tube was removed by order of a Florida judge acting at the request of Schiavo’s husband that his wife be allowed to die. She was 41 and had spent nearly half her life…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on Forbes: The entirely predictable media obsession with the tragedy of the Germanwings jetliner that crashed into the French Alps on March 25 is moving forward full force. The media, especially cable television, love airline disasters. Once German prosecutors revealed that Andreas Lubitz, the pilot at the controls of…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: Biogen, a Cambridge, Massachusetts biotech company, announced last week that early tests of their new drug aducanumab, a monoclonal antibody, had shown impressive results in treating those with early stage Alzheimer’s disease. The drug significantly reduced the amyloid plaque buildup in the brain that is…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: A British high court has permitted Kyle Casson, a single man, to adopt an eight-month-old boy who was carried and delivered by a surrogate — Casson’s own mother. To diagram this family tree, Casson, 27, technically adopted not his son but his brother because the…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan on NBC News: Guns are a medical issue — no matter how often the NRA denies it. Eight national health groups, including the American Academy of Pediatrics, just released a joint statement echoing that sentiment. But among the barrage of media questions leveled at politicians on the presidential…
A new piece by contributor Art Caplan in Forbes: There are lots of reasons why measles, having gone to Disneyland, is enjoying a comeback around the United States and Canada. Unfounded fears of autism scare some parents. Others buy the daffy conspiracy theory that pharmaceutical companies are just pushing vaccination to make a buck. Some…
