Harm Reduction

The “pivotal regulatory science” used in setting air pollution standards are epidemiological studies measuring the effects of particulate matter (PM) on our health.

"Corporations are people." – Mitt Romney

"Social media sites like Facebook offer advertisers an easy and inexpensive channel to reach narrowly-defined audiences in a relatively unregulated setting."  

The beauty of the unfettered market is that through an "invisible hand," supply and demand match and value more frequently triumphs over "lemons." Of course, that market does not exist, not even when initially described by Adam Smith.

US drug policy is just plain nuts.

The CDC just issued a report, providing more information about what has been killing and hospitalizing people who vape. It's pretty much what we were saying last month.

The apocryphal story about bias in artificial intelligence algorithms has to do with the difficulty of facial recognition [1].

In 2016 I testified at an FDA hearing about the "opioid crisis," which was starting to make its way into the news in a big way.

Why do teaching hospitals feel the need to write articles justifying why they are better? What secret fear? Certainly not the rightfully discredited belief that the arrival of the new class of interns heralds a spike in hospital deaths.

Surgeons prescribe pain medications, makes sense; pain is a frequent “adverse” effect of surgical care. And with the drumbeats of concern over opioid addiction, physicians have reassessed our prescribing habits.