Policy & Ethics

About two months ago a tax was placed on soda, sugary and diet, in Philadelphia; and just as the sun always rises, another study has appeared to describe the impact of the tax.

Today, the political and media landscapes seem laser-focused on polarized, wide brush policy no matter the context. You don’t need to look very far to appreciate this reality.

Patent No. 4,736,866 granted in 1988 was the first intentionally modified animal, the OncoMouse.

I  hate to say "I told you so." It's really obnoxious.  But in this case, I'll make an exception. "I told you so."

The history of protecting patient’s medical records and confidentiality

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie—deliberate, contrived and dishonest—but the myth: persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. —President John F. Kennedy

On March 6, 2018, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a 12-month randomized clinical trial [authors Erin E Krebs, Amy Gravely

Here's the title of an opinion piece in the April issue of the American Journal of Public Health, which was published by four authors at the CDC:

I've written before about what happens when prisons use bad science to carry out capital punishment (1). It's not pretty.

Rheumatologists are disappearing. The physicians who care for patients with diseases due to our immune system are dwindling just as more and more patients need their attention.