Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of the passage of the amended Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).
Science is meant to be self-correcting, but is this true in practice?
A recent Atlantic essay, “The Cities That Said Yes to Drugs,” by Michael Powell, offers a disturbing
Once, an HIV/AIDS diagnosis meant virtually certain death. [1] That was before Gilead Pharmaceuticals developed the drug tenofovir in two “prodrug” forms [2], tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF) and tenofovir alafenamide (TAF).
Medicare Advantage (MA) accounts for an increasing share of overall Medicare coverage. The privatized program now serves 54% of eligible beneficiaries, and why not?
Join us on the Science Dispatch podcast as we discuss:
The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) recently launched Project Remission, which is dedicated to the idea that chronic diseases, such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and obesity, are not inevitably progressive and can
How do you keep them down on the farm?