Policy & Ethics

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported a devastating 108,000 overdose deaths in 2021.

Today, nearly 15% of the population has some degree of chronic kidney (renal) disease and 750,000 have end-stage renal disease (ESRD), with 70% requiring dialysis. Medicare provides health coverage to patients with ESRD irrespective of age.

One thing we have learned during the pandemic is that medical innovation cannot rest on its laurels.

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.