Policy & Ethics

I am a technically trained non-physician who advocates on behalf of patients who are now being widely denied safe and effective opioid therapy for their pain.  I’ve been active in this field for 25 years, communicating with tens of thousands

By Susan Goldhaber, MPH

Good Morning PROP members (1). Did you sleep well? I sure hope so, but if not, it's understandable.

Environmentalists often oppose the very solutions that they once proposed.

"Clinical trial" is just a nice-sounding term for "human experiment." We don't like to use that term because it carries a lot of baggage, like the torturous and murderous "experiments" conducted by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.

Last week, anti-vaxxers protests shut down the mass vaccination program underway at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles.

Several months ago, we ran a story on the best (worst?) conspiracy theories about the coronavirus.

As of now, the official number of COVID cases in the United States stands at roughly 27.1 million.

The goal should be to establish evidence-based regulation understandable to the public, with clear accountability.

On several occasions, I have written on the Trump Administration’s efforts to the use of scientific stu