Policy & Ethics

The measles outbreak at Disneyland, which came to the public's attention in January 2015, prompted several states to tighten their vaccine exemption laws.

Michael Pollan, food activist and journalist, is the proverbial man trapped in the past in his latest piece for th

There are few worse ways to awake a person than with a needle stick in the arm to draw blood.

Our public health system has a very bad habit of fighting the last war. This has resulted in a real-life version of American Horror Story.

Unlike our ancestors, who encountered it often, members of our modern society seem strangely detached from death. Many people have never even seen a dead body.

CrossFit Inc.'s CEO Greg Glassman was once in a war on Coca-Cola - at least until it was revealed he was only in a war on Coca-Cola because Coke gave money to his competitors.

Last week we saw a video of bacteria evolving to resist two common antibiotics.

Monsanto's takeover by Bayer must be triggering massive cognitive dissonance among organic food and anti-GMO activists because their favorite bogeyman, that American incarnation of pure corporate evil and greed, has been purcha

Last week, Hillary Clinton left a September 11 memorial service after she felt overheated and dehydrated.

  Welcome to my first in a new series entitled:  The Shackling of the Physician.  It was that or “limitless inane continuous regulations and impositions imparted on the doctor against his/her will without his/her input that ser