Policy & Ethics

This is an easy document to poke fun. It is full of cultural new-speak that can be jarring when heard, let alone considered. The whitepaper provides guidelines for healthcare’s more formal speech in journal articles, presentations, and policy.

Alas, not. This is about decision-making when views conflict regarding whether personal liberty outweighs public rights, health, and safety.  This is about judicial ego - and who gets to fill the vacant shoes left by Justice Scalia.

California children 12 years and older may soon be allowed to get COVID-19 vaccines without their parents' consent if Senate Bill 866 (SB866

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.