Carl Elliott

The Horrors of Hepatitis Research

Sydney Halpern’s Dangerous Medicine shows that the abusive experiments on mentally disabled children at Willowbrook State School were only one part of a much larger unethical research program.

Fairer Covid Trials

The True Cost of Vaccine Studies

Can challenge trials be done ethically?

An Ethical Path to a Covid Vaccine

Many idealistic young people seem willing to risk their health for the common good. The question is how to make Phase I studies safe and fair.

Pandemic Journal, March 30–April 5

Brief dispatches by New York Review writers documenting the coronavirus outbreak around the world, including Danny Lyon in Bernalillo, Andrew McGee in New York, Nicole Rudick in South Orange, and more.

Happiness on Demand?

Swedish Apologies

Knifed with a Smile

Paolo Macchiarini was a celebrity surgeon. But soon there were murmurs about his methods.