Policy & Ethics

Oregon is widely seen as a progressive state. It was the first to permit physician-assisted suicide. The state has voted for the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1988.

Medical ethics can be thorny even with a relatively benign topic being considered. But physician-assisted suicide (PAS) is anything but benign.

If somebody invented a device that could save the lives of millions of smokers, should society encourage its use?

If you were living in Austria, Russia, and Sweden in August of 1805, declaring war on France, led by the legendary tactician Napoleon Bonaparte, must have felt like a suicide mission. It basically was.

Self-righteous busybodies, apparently not content with the carnage caused by their magnificently inept mishandling of the fake opioid crisis, (1) have taken up a new cause - one that will make many of you anxious.

The Mercatus Center, alternately characterized as a libertarian think-tank or a “Koch [brothers] backed think tank” released a financial analysis of Senator Sanders' Medicare for All Act, the only single-payer legislation currently proposed.

World Breastfeeding Week is upon us which means it is that time of year for the release of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF-led Global Breastfeeding Collective’s report and

It is very hard to view health insurers and their actions through an altruistic and caring lens when one of their own simply cannot stop making bad policy.

Dr. Stan Young is a man on a mission and he's got all the right weapons to pull it off.

In 2007, a middle-aged British man shot and killed his wife. He was declared mentally incapacitated, convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to hospital care.