Policy & Ethics

Need to catch up? My first article on this topic can be found here.

The Food and Drug Administration has dealt two deadly blows to tobacco harm reduction in the past two days.

It's not the Macarena or a line dance but a Texas law involving the creation of a corporate entity. You know there will be a problem when a law that “creates” a new corporation is designed to take an old corporation apart.

Theoretically, it is possible to transplant a head – at least in mice.

Thirty years ago, the legendary Walter Cronkite and world-renowned experts at ACSH took on the overblown fears of the day in Big Fears, Little Risks.

Why start an article about a serious debate on a serious topic – whether overprescribing opioids caused today's overdose crisis – with a joke title?

Let's try an experiment.

Let’s save you and me much time. There is no scientific study on the hormonal effects of hormone replacement therapy on biologic male athletes transitioning to transwomen athletes.

First, as an overall review: current federal regulations prohibit the possession of a handgun by anyone younger than 18.

How are asterisks assigned? How long do asterisks persist? Do asterisks spill over onto your family? Do asterisks apply just to you, or do they extend to your work, or what may follow from it?