Policy & Ethics

I've written before about what happens when prisons use bad science to carry out capital punishment (1). It's not pretty.

Rheumatologists are disappearing. The physicians who care for patients with diseases due to our immune system are dwindling just as more and more patients need their attention.

At Iowa State University Crop Bioengineering Center's annual meeting, a team of scholars showed their research

William Shubb, Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California, has put a halt to the champagne wishes and caviar dreams of California trial lawyers, a U.N.

Imagine your wife suffers a cardiac arrest in the middle of the night and remains unconscious. You start CPR and tell your granddaughter to call 911.

Media headlines have run amok over the so-called “stunning admission” obtained during a deposition of a former Aetna medical director whose job was to author

As this issue of Priorities goes to press, our New York office is closed due to a winter storm and that makes people worry about their heat

A new law passed by a slim margin in the Netherlands reflexively making anyone over the age of 18 an organ donor, compelling them to have to take spe

It is only logical that if someone makes the same mistake once or twice it might be wise to stop and think. But perhaps that is giving the CDC and FDA too much credit.

Early on January 27, 2018, The Most Interesting Man in the World passed away at the age of 91.