John LantosAug 23, 20234 minGender-affirming treatment: life-saver or child-abuseBy any account, the field of pediatric gender medicine is a mess. Even experts in the field cannot agree about what is going on, where...
John LantosJul 26, 20231 minHow do you wanna die? A few months ago, I had the opportunity to give a TED talk at Indiana University. I chose to talk about the many changes that have...
John LantosJul 14, 20233 minCriticizing brain death pisses people offThe controversy about brain death really pisses some people off. Doctors, in particular, are likely to reject the idea that there is...
John LantosJun 28, 20232 minWho should debate RFK Jr? Robert F. Kennedy Jr. thinks vaccines kill children and cause brain damage. He thinks they continue to be given only because of a massive...
John LantosJun 20, 20233 minControversial Bodies in the Mütter MuseumA few years ago, when a Kansas City museum was about to open one of those wildly popular exhibitions of carefully dissected and cleverly...
John LantosJun 14, 20235 minThe Death of a Good DoctorI like to read books that explore the ways that doctors balance their idealism, their selfishness, and their need for emotional numbness....
John LantosJun 8, 20234 minWhen families disagree with expertsI wrote last week about the deliberations at an FDA Advisory Committee meeting about an innovative gene therapy treatment for Duchenne...
John LantosJun 4, 20234 minDrama about Duchenne at the FDAThe recent meeting of an FDA Advisory Committee charged with making a recommendation about an innovative gene therapy for the treatment...
John LantosMay 15, 20234 minThis is not a three-parent childA strange paper recently appeared in Nature, reporting that some (“fewer than five”) babies had been born in the UK following a...
John LantosMay 7, 20233 minSister Senators and South Carolina Supremes Last week, I wrote about the Republican women who stopped a life-begins-at-conception ban on abortions in South Carolina. They have...
John LantosApr 28, 20233 minDobbs and Democracy in "Realville"Roe v. Wade created a strange situation in American democracy. Politicians could posture against abortion without having to face the...
John LantosApr 14, 20233 minWho's Afraid of Ectogenesis? The idea of “ectogenesis” – growing babies outside the womb - has fired imaginations for over a century. In 1923, biochemist JBS Haldane...