A Los Angeles doctor, Jeff Steinberg, provoked an uproar in March 2009 when he offered to help prospective parents choose embryos based on eye and hair color. He later retracted the offer and said he would limit the selection to screening for genetic diseases. Read about it in a March 3, 2009, article from the New York Daily […]

In December 2009 the state medical board of California filed a complaint against Kamrava accusing him of “gross negligence.” Read about the complaint a  Jan. 4, 2010, article from CNN.

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the nation’s chief professional organization for physicians who treat infertility, expelled Dr. Michael Kamrava, the Beverly Hills fertility specialist responsible for the eight babies born in January 2009 to Nadya Suleman. As this USA Today story reports, the society confirmed in October 2009 that its disciplinary committee took the action against Kamrava for repeatedly […]

Read an Oct. 3, 2008, article in the online magazine Slate about medical ethics and end-of-life issues in the context of organ transplants.

Erin Swenson, a who lives in the Atlanta area and was ordained in 1973 as Eric Karl Swenson by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), in 1996 openly changed gender while working as a pastor. She is a licensed marriage therapist in Atlanta, Ga., where she works with individuals and families on gender identity issues.

Edgardo Menvielle, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, works in a program for children with gender-variant behaviors and their families at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.

Feeding America published different maps breaking down food insecurity rates by state and county throughout the U.S. using 2009-2011 data.

Read a June 10, 2013, story by ThinkProgress about the high concentration of child hunger in rural America.

The Sodexo Foundation released a report in June 2007 that found that the U.S. pays $90 billion a year – or $800 per household – directly or indirectly for the effects of hunger (hunger-related charities, illness and psychosocial dysfunction and the impact of less education/lower productivity).