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.

In November 2015, ten-year-old Maya was rushed to the emergency room with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), a central nervous system disorder causing chronic pain.
At last month's White House ceremony, President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Drug Enforcement Administration to reschedule cannabis from a Schedule I controlled substance to a Schedule III controlled substance.
The study doesn’t accuse anyone of fraud.
The members of the 119th Congress have a lot on their legislative plates. Legislation on invading Venezuela and Greenland, healthcare costs, a bill to fund the government for the year, and regulating AI, to mention just a few.
It was the horrendous Tuskegee experiment that eventually led to the formation of the Institutional Review Board system, designed to protect human research part
As a physician, I am attuned to the tension between my craft, grounded in “gold standard” science, and its artful application, grounded in the values of my patients as I experience them.
The Washington Post reports that President Trump plans to issue an executive order that would have the Dru
The Gift, by Lewis Hyde, explores two different human ways of organizing value and relationships. 'Tis the season for today’s ascendant market economies, where transactions prescribe value.