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Patients

The CDC's new pain treatment advice still invites the "misapplication" it blames for harming patients.

Pain treatment

The CDC's New Opioid Prescribing Advice Still Invites the 'Misapplication' It Blames for Harming Patients

The damage done by the original guidelines, including undertreatment and abrupt dose reductions, could have been avoided if the CDC had not presumed to advise doctors on how to treat pain.

Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2022 1:55 PM

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Cancer

More Bureaucracy Won't Cure Cancer

Biden's "supercharged" cancer moonshot is little more than a hollow promise.

Natalie Dowzicky | 2.2.2022 3:25 PM

Shock Treatment

Civil Liberties

Psychiatric Hospitals Can Still Force Patients to Accept Shock Treatment. One Connecticut Patient Has Been Shocked 500 Times in Five Years.

Despite concerns about efficacy and side effects, courts are slow to act on behalf of patients who don’t want the treatment.

Michael Simonson | 2.11.2020 10:45 AM

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FDA

FDA Get Out of the Way: Free to Choose Medicine

A petition by Tomorrow's Cures Today Foundation

Ronald Bailey | 3.11.2015 4:46 PM

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Civil Liberties

Pregnant Women Warned: Consent to Surgical Birth or Else

As hospitals and courts collude, pregnant women are being excluded from fundamental decisions about how they give birth.

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 7.31.2014 4:35 PM

Politics

The Medical Conflict of Interest Mania: Dr. Thomas Stossel on Regulating Doctors

Todd Krainin | 6.18.2014 12:25 PM

Pharmaceuticals

Evil Drug Companies Accused of Taking Advantage of the Bereaved

Ronald Bailey | 12.27.2012 12:32 PM

Politics

NYT Defines Obamacare Success: Fewer Options, but Better Coordinated

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.15.2011 12:54 PM

Politics

More Central Planning: The Failed Panacea for Health Care Reform

A rebuttal to The New Republic's latest prescription for health care reform

Ronald Bailey | 6.8.2011 10:30 AM

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