Governments are moving beyond mere advice and trying to regulate people's diets more directly.
Giving patients, and markets, more power in the healthcare system leads to better results.
Nicotine has become associated with the worst harms of smoking, even though the chemical is not responsible for the cancers or lung disease caused by combustible tobacco.
Before the science is in, the panic is already writing policy.
Rescheduling marijuana will make it easier to study a drug that tens of millions of Americans already use.
The screen time advisory reveals why we don’t need a surgeon general.
Terminally ill patients were promised access to experimental treatments, but the "right to try" exists mostly on paper.
Rather than debating over who should fill the role, Congress and the White House should just eliminate it altogether.
Government-backed biowearables could generate vast streams of personal health data with few legal safeguards.
A system that allows drug makers to profit from restricted access will never liberalize on its own—and patients will continue to bear the cost.
When the state dictates both the questions science asks and the answers it offers, it converts knowledge into propaganda and health into a matter of politics.
West Virginia's overdose data prove it: Officials misunderstood the problem, and patients paid the price.
Drugs like Ozempic might not only address obesity but also alcoholism, smoking, and drug addiction.
The bill would permanently schedule fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs—and impede therapeutic research.
In the Abolish Everything issue, Reason writers make the case for ending Amtrak, the FDA, the TSA, and everything else.
Many seriously ill people die waiting for the FDA to approve drugs that regulators in other advanced countries have already approved.
As the DEA relentlessly tightens regulations on pain meds, the FDA refuses to approve a safer alternative already being used in similar countries.
There's an easy way to lower the cost of next-generation weight-loss drugs.
Examining the mixed legacy of a fighter for patient autonomy.
The propensity of prosecutors to jump to conclusions before all the evidence is in is very destructive—and nothing new.
The FDA decision is only a mini step toward freeing the pill.
Why won’t the FDA allow women to buy a safer product without requiring a doctor’s visit that medical experts think is unnecessary?
After losing access to opioids, many patients can’t live with constant pain.
The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions.
Doctors can’t help people in pain because of restrictive opioid policy.
A major lesson of the pandemic is that science is "not a priesthood," says Dr. Jeffrey A. Singer, a general surgeon and senior fellow at the Cato Institute.
Prohibition forces doctors to cut patients off from essential pain-killing medication.
We can’t eliminate the virus, but we can reduce its harm to our lives and livelihoods.
The FDA lets doctors prescribe off-label drugs all the time. Now that there’s a pandemic, some governors have decided doctors can’t make those decisions for themselves.
Classifying heavy internet use as medical addiction leads to bad policy and inferior patient care.
The FDA should facilitate access to the the opioid-overdose antidote.
Let doctors exercise their best professional judgment and prescribe opioids-free from the chilling effects created by monitoring government agencies.
Medical tort reform is overrated. And it's probably unconstitutional.
Here are the problems with the House plan to repeal and replace Obamacare.
I've voted for Republicans for president before. No more.
In the government's new war on opiates, physicians and their patients find themselves caught in the crossfire.
The issue of mandatory vaccination is a thorny one for libertarians. A tension exists between the rights of the individual and the rights of the general public.
How a free society should respond to a communicable disease outbreak.
Vaccination is a wise idea, but in a free society, we must tolerate bad choices.
Contrary to "conventional wisdom," health insurance-private or otherwise-does not make health care more affordable.
If you want a preview of the future of American health care, just look to Canada.
As health care gets more bureaucratic, will doctors go Galt?
How the government is putting the medical profession-and your health-at risk
How the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act interferes with state sovereignty
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