Policy & Ethics

Public health officials have tried desperately to answer this question for the better part of two years: how do you convince the intransigent minority of vaccine-hesitant Americans to roll up their sleeves and get a COVID shot?

But as I wrote back in October:

The Food and Drug Administration recently granted Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Paxlovid and molnupiravir, two lifesaving, direct-acting antiviral drugs that are effective in preventing both hospitalization and death of people who have cont

We've all heard the argument, and it goes like this: misinformation drives millions of people into COVID denialism.

People will do a lot of things for money, but getting a COVID vaccine seems to be one of the rare exceptions.

The cryopreservation technology to freeze egg, sperm, and embryos was developed in the 1990s.

Any time I see the phrase "according to fact-checkers" in a headline, I can't help but roll my eyes.

Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a lab-leak origin story for SARS-CoV-2.

  Are Doctors Indifferent to the plight of their dying patients?

It's time to update our language, something that is routinely done to ensure accuracy and minimize antiquated, bigoted, and offensive terms. Think about some of the changes we've seen in the past few decades.