Policy & Ethics

Not only did Americans vote on members of Congress this week, but citizens of several states also voted on various science- and health-related policy issues. How did those turn out?

"Controlled Prescription Drugs (CPDs) ... are still responsible for the most drug-involved overdose deaths and are the second most commonly abused substance in the United States."

Interoperability - the ability of physicians and health care systems to share electronic versions of patient information.

There aren't many things that unite both sides of the political aisle today, but environmental activists have achieved the impossible.

Minneapolis’s Hennepin County Medical Center finds itself in hot water over allegedly systemic practices that, in concert, might have viol

California loves to show "leadership" by putting warning labels on the things they are not yet allowed to ban.

As the saying goes, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." We know that's true because statisticians themselves just said so.

Organic food has been in the news a lot, lately.

In the 1980s and '90s, environmentalists touted ethanol as ideal renewable energy because it's made from corn, which can obviously be regrown each year.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has a new leader, an Old Guard insider named Dr. Elisabete We