Policy & Ethics

Glyphosate, a component of the popular herbicide commonly known as Roundup in the United States, has been placed on Cali

Given the title of the article and the topic, I am going to make a Conflict of Interest disclosure - my son works for Google and I remain immensely proud of him even if someone claims Google controlled the tone of my article due to that.(1)

Bloomberg Businessweek has written another anti-Monsanto article, nothing spec

An international team of medical experts recently published a global call to action in Science Translational Medicine in an effort to curb the unethical, unsubstantiated use o

An abundance of caution, we have all heard the phrase. And while there are nuances, its gist is, for this particular situation we are extra careful. And in what situations does that apply?

By Rebecca Chisholm, University of Melbourne and

Aside from eroding the invaluable doctor-patient relationship by monopolizing the clinician’s time for data entry, fragmenting access between institutions when

There is a theoretical relationship between a nation’s wealth and the amount of pollution it emits.

Dear CDC, Yesterday a Texan named Tom called our office for some advice about his pain, so the call went to me. I told him I'd be happy to do whatever I could to help him. In retrospect, it was an empty promise.

I have repeatedly written about the vital need to stop one-size-fits-all approaches to complicated medical conditions and health policy as well as how imp