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.

Just before cold and flu season is set to kick off, the Food and Drug Administration's advisory panel last month reported that an 
In April 2022, when the Food and Drug Administration announced plans to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes and cigars, I blogged about it,
When the California legislature passed a bipartisan bill one month ago that would decriminalize possessing and
For those of you who don't follow the details of the so-called "opioid crisis" (finally being appropriately named the fentanyl crisis), some of the terms, names, and groups (like PROP) may be unfamiliar. Here's a primer.  
Training for Chiropractors Chiropractors must complete a Doctor of Chiropractic (DC) degree, typically over three to four years. Some claim that this training is similar to going to medical school:
Mostly, patients don’t get to know what goes on behind the closed doors of M&M conferences. [1] Mostly, they don’t care except when malpractice is involved.
Let's give West Virginian Senator Joe Manchin the benefit of the doubt.
The purpose: to research highly contagious diseases affecting animals and humans, such as foot and mouth disease.
President Eisenhower surrounded himself with brilliant academics; he knew that science ended World War II without costing another million American lives. There was a sense that science would soon solve all the world’s problems.