Policy & Ethics

Every time I'm in Poland, I make several trips to our favorite massage therapist. Because of the exchange rate and the lower cost of labor, I can get an hour-long massage for just over $30.

The use and concept of terms like “genetic testing” or “genome sequencing” as the key to future disease prevention is speculative at best.

An estimated 100,000+ people in the US, the majority of whom are black or Hispanic, suffer from a hereditary condition, which causes changes in the structure and function of red blood cells.

While our culture is preoccupied with violations of consumer data privacy yielding targeted marketing for shoes, travel or food preferences, law and advertising firms are leading a more nefarious erosive charge on patient privacy.

Both Dr. Wells and I often write, as clinicians, about the changing landscape in healthcare, bemoaning how administrators or technologies break the patient-physician relationship.

Some people just don't get it. Which is fine.

In a just published perspective piece in The New England Journal of Medicine, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D.

Protected personal health information has traditionally been exempt from privacy concerns, given the unique nature of its scope and regulation, until the advent of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing, forced implementation of electronic medic

When you cross the state line into California, your risk of cancer immediately quadruples. We know this because of all the warning signs.

Let's pretend that you're a government funded scientist, like many professors and academics. Your entire livelihood depends on the largesse of taxpayers, politicians, and bureaucrats.