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.

Today’s Wall Street Journal reports that recreational drug users
As usual, the answer is nuanced. Thousands of legitimate patients needing pain or anxiety relief find it nearly impossible to get their meds. That’s one tragedy.
Join host Cameron English as he sits down Dr.
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