Adam Gaffney

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Blood donation is meant to be free. But there’s an enormous exception: plasma.

The administration expects to stop buying vaccines and treatment by year’s end, handing over these responsibilities to for-profit companies that are salivating at the opportunity.

A new book argues that life may be spread more widely through the universe than we think.

In Darwin’s theory, parents pass traits down to their children and the best survive. David Quammen’s new book explains a more complicated process.

Why policymakers calculate the cost of life and death, sickness and health

Elisabeth Rosenthal's new book 'An American Sickness' traces the effects of profit in American health care.

The state of our teeth reveals—and reinforces—economic disadvantage in society.

For scientists investigating the human mind, deep-sea animals may hold the key.

The 21st Century Cures Act has been lauded as a bipartisan success. It's actually the result of a long war on drug regulation.

A new book outlines an epidemic of over-diagnosis and addiction.

Have antidepressant drugs ever truly worked—and does that matter?

Companies are mining our data in the name of medical research.

Prominent progressives have undercut a cherished policy goal of the left. They’re wrong on both the politics and the economics.

A new book explores the new world of medical tourism, an industry that's made Hungary the capital for glamorous dental work.