There's just no substitute for a dead body. Computer teaching is all the rage and simulation can do many things, but when it comes to anatomy, students learn much better through the traditional…

Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, has a $29 billion per year budget, which dwarfs the National Science Foundation and NASA - combined. You'd think for all that money…

In America, the cost of health care is not high just because the medicine is the best in the world, it is also because of lawsuits. Due to judgments in court cases that have earned tens of millions…

Diversity in medical education used to be simple - more black people, more women - but it is not just a numbers game anymore.  Instead of focus just on recruiting under-represented students…

French growers have to endure a lot of strange restrictions - they can't use seeds with neonicotinoids on them, for example, because of a manufactured controversy about colony collapse disorder, but…

More than 2,000,000 people are incarcerated in the United States, the highest incarceration rate in the world - little surprise when abusing a dog is a felony, there are different penalties for…

With expensive clinical trials, lawyers waiting to sue, and long approval times unless a disease makes it into the New York Times, pharmaceutical companies are leaving the antibiotic space behind.…

America now has a services funding problem that has plagued Europe for a time - nowhere near enough workers to pay for people getting government money.  Though there are now 2 workers to pay for…

Naomi Klein: To fight climate change, we have to end capitalism. Mariusz Kubik, CC BY By Matthew Nisbet, Northeastern University Earth is “f---ed” and our insatiable growth economy is to blame. So…

What role do genes have to play in children's exam results? Student test by  wavebreakmedia /Shutterstock By Eva Krapohl, King's College London and Kaili Rimfeld, King's College London The idea…