Policy & Ethics

“All employers with 100+ employees to ensure their workers are vaccinated or tested weekly, and to pay for vaccination time.”

YouTube triggered an uproar early last week, announcing that it would take “down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including Joseph Mercola and Robert F.

I have been writing about the now disastrous consequences of withholding opioid pain medications from pain patients with legitimate needs since 2013 – well before most other organizations.

For more than a decade, policymakers and public health officials have incorrectly blamed the worsening overdose crisis on doctors prescribing opioids to their patients in pain.

Remarkable in life, a stylish Black woman who loved to cook and dance, Henrietta Lacks is even more remarkable in her after-life.

Interested in a simple, common-sense way to make street drugs much safer? This would go a long way toward mitigating our misnamed "opioid overdose crisis." Why misnamed?

Today the Drug Enforcement Administration released a Public Safety Alert warning the public about “the alarming increase in the l

“We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing,” San Francisco Mayor London Breed

In August 2020, Scientific American offered its readers some spot-on advice about how to evaluate the constant stream of COVID-19 research we're all subjected to.

Did you quit smoking with the help of an electronic cigarette like I did? The FDA is unimpressed with your progress toward a healthier lifestyle.