Policy & Ethics

The following is a snippet of a 1/15/23 article written by Dr. Robert Popovian (American Council on Science and Health advisor) and Louis Tharp for Healthcare Business Today,

The politicians have weighed in, from Senator Booker writing to the CPSC,

Like the work of Dr. Frances Kelsey on Thalidomide, which led to the Kefauver-Harris amendment strengthening drug-safety testing, and that of Dr.

Almost every week, reports appear in the local news describing how police officers, exposed to fentanyl in the air or by contact, lose cons

“Everybody knows” that America is undergoing a public health crisis in addiction and death involving opioids.  Many media sources -- and even some medical doctors who should know better -- have attributed the causes of this crisis to “over-pr

Zantac was one of some seven anti-acid remedies available - until April 1, 2020 [1], when the FDA asked for its voluntary reca

Late on the afternoon of December 23, the U.S.

I have written for years that the Food and Drug Administration should make the opioid overdose antidote naloxone over‐​the‐​counter.

He was also a man of courage, not afraid of attack by those whose moral stance opposed his scientific evaluations, even as they conflicted with his values. Staying true to science was his lodestar. Where are such heroes today?

The recent investigative article in the Washington Post about the devastation that illegal fentanyl has brought to the US was clearly an enormously