Policy & Ethics

Reporters and editors have the duty to inform the public about current events.

Somehow, it's election season again. Although the general election isn't until November 2020, campaigning began in early 2019. Basically, in America, the presidential campaign cycle is roughly two years long. This is insane.

The second week in a row that a blockbuster article on health has been published; this time an article on “waste” in the US healthcare system published in JAMA.

ACSH has been writing about the now disastrous consequences of withholding opioid pain medications from pain patients with legitimate needs since 2013 (1) – well before most other organizations. Since this time Dr.

Let's pretend that you are faced with a life-threatening cancer, and your doctors tell you that chemotherapy is the only realistic solution available. Would you take it? Most rational people would say yes.

The healthcare conversation seems to have been put on the back burner as our federal government twists and turns over other more “pressing” issues.

Writing in her blog at the National Institute On Drug Abuse, Dr. Nora Volkow and co-author Dr.

"Imitation is the best form of flattery." Charles Caleb Colton, 1824 "Except when it makes me want to puke."  Josh Bloom, 2019

Earlier today, students all over the world walked out of school to participate in Climate Strike. Led by 16-year-old Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg, the strike is meant to raise awareness about climate change.

By Henry I. Miller and Renata H. Mullen