Policy & Ethics

I don't need to tell you, especially if you've ever needed pain medications for moderate-severe pain, that this country is just plain nuts.

For many years, the science communication landscape looked something like this: reputable universities and public health institutions did sound research and educated consumers about the risks they faced; devious activist groups fabricated health s

     

Medicare, Parts A and B, provide coverage to the eligible, those over 65, and those who qualify because of a specific illness, like end-stage renal disease or due to income limitations, with coverage for hospitalization and physician care.

The role of the CDC in categorizing opioid drugs

President Biden announced Thursday that he is pardoning anyone convicted of federal crimes for simple possession of marijuana.

Three little letters that mean so much to a patient: PRN. It’s a term often used but poorly understood. We see it on prescription bottles. We look at it but we just glance over it.

Many scientists complain about widespread science denial—then declare with a straight face that men can get pregnant and sex is a spectrum. This hypocrisy should horrify everybody.

Last week, Yair Rosenberg wrote in the Atlantic about the upcoming highest of holidays for those of the Jewish faith, Yom Kippur.

Can you feel it beginning?