Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

As the coronavirus surges throughout the United States and much of the world, legitimate fears of overwhelmed hospitals and a spike in COVID-related deaths have returned. What should be done about them?
“Warp Speed” is the impossibly fast fictional space travel that exceeds the speed of light, which was popularized by the Star Trek TV series and movies.  The Trump administration’s 
I've written more than 75 articles about the travesty that is now our drug "policy." Many of them can be found on the ACS
The following is an excerpt printed with permission of The Baltimore Sun.
Several months ago, I wrote an article about how UK health authorities have more guts than their U.S. counterparts.
It should be no secret to Canadian pain patients that things aren't exactly rosy up there. Our neighbors to the north have their own set of anti-opioid fanatics (1) to make their lives miserable.
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To everything, there is a season A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to kill, a time to heal A time to laugh, a time to weep
Commercial insurance, that employer-provided benefit, initially a workaround to World War II price controls, provides most health coverage to Americans.