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University of Minnesota bioethicist Dr. Carl Elliott has long pondered that question. He spent years taking his own employer, the University of Minnesota, to task over its handling of the suicide of a psychiatric research participant. Now, he's writing a book about whistleblowers in the medical research field.
Former U.S. House speaker to promote legalizing marijuana
Former U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday he has had a change of heart on marijuana and will promote its nationwide legalization as a way to help veterans and the nation's deadly opioid crisis.
New way of defining Alzheimer's aims to find disease sooner
Government and other scientists are proposing a new way to define Alzheimer's disease -- basing it on biological signs, such as brain changes, rather than memory loss and other symptoms of dementia that are used today.