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Bioethics

A scene from the movie "Okja," featuring the title creature — a humongous pet pig.

A Netflix animal rights movie came at a strange time for South Korea

Culture

South Koreans have opened their homes to animals after decades of turning them away.

The World

Exploring the science and ethics behind the first man-made cell

Global Politics

Pope to skip Mexico City on Latin America trip

Lifestyle & Belief

Government report urges changes to U.S. policies on human subject research

Environment

Parents of morbidly obese children under fire

Health & Medicine

Olympic drug testing

Environment

Before the Olympics even begin there are concerns that Olympic anti-doping monitors won’t be able to detect the blood-boosting drug EPO.

West Germany Doping Study Shows Widespread Abuse

Sports

East German athletes personified doping during the Cold War era. But it turns out that West German athletes were using performance enhancing drugs, too. A report released this week suggests that doping was far more widespread in West Germany than was previously thought. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Louise Osborne, a reporter with The Guardian […]

Baseball Doping Scandal Sends Ripples to Latin America

It wasn’t just A-Rod. Monday’s suspensions handed out by Major League Baseball involve 12 other players, all from Latin America. Three are from Venezuela. Anchor Aaron Schachter speaks with Alfredo Villasmil, a sports writer for Venezuela’s Ultimas Noticias newspaper, to hear about reaction to the Biogenesis doping scandal there.

Former Olympian David Moorcroft Recalls Doping Controversies of Games Past

Global Politics

The practice of doping is believed to have been at its peak during the 1970s and 80s, and back then testing for drugs was less reliable.

Organ Donation in the Age of Social Networking

Facebook has experimented with a lot of new and questionable plans over the years, from their controversial default privacy settings to their timeline layout, which some users love, and others hate.  But it seems no plan is as unusual as their new one, launched yesterday. In short, the plan encourages everyone on Facebook to advertise their […]