So the Third Circuit held yesterday, though it left room for challenges to laws that make it too hard to get cross-licensed from one state to another.
Vinay Prasad discusses his departure from the FDA, Fauci's diaries, and how working for the government made him more libertarian.
Maybe “solve” is overstating it. But a recent study linked GLP-1 medications to a greater likelihood of marriage or cohabitation.
Robo-docs are not likely to take over healthcare anytime soon, but they could do more to assist human doctors—if we let them.
By lifting the hold on foreign physicians, the Trump administration tacitly admitted its broad immigration restrictions aren't working.
A former pastor suing ChatGPT says the chatbot gave him life-threatening medical advice. But tech-enabled healthcare is not the problem.
AI doctors are bringing affordable medical care to Utah. Skeptics are now trying to slow it down.
Because the agency has banned most peptides, products from overseas labs dominate the market. How does that protect Americans?
The new rules will fast track clinical testing, but a far cry from legalization or decriminalization.
Terminally ill patients were promised access to experimental treatments, but the "right to try" exists mostly on paper.
It’s a vestigial role that has morphed into a national annoyance.
Beyond Belief explains how the "evidence revolution" is helping practitioners, policymakers, and the public understand what really works.
The agency issued "national priority vouchers" for the two drugs six days after President Donald Trump promised to facilitate approval of psychedelic therapies.
And the government's "solution" is making it worse.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's distinction between medical and recreational cannabis is hard to reconcile with the relevant scientific and statutory criteria.
The medical model assumes that people should be allowed to use psychedelics only for government-approved reasons.
The president's facilitation of research and FDA review could help make psychedelics available to approved patients. But what about everyone else?
The case will determine whether an unnamed plaintiff can take the hospital and its doctors to federal court.
Under Kennedy's oversight, HHS has "undermined the integrity of its actions" with respect to its immunization recommendations, the court ruled.
His push relies on dubious data about the pills' safety.
Terence Kealey and Jeffrey Flier debate abolishing the National Institutes of Health.
The employer insurance exclusion has chained workers to their employers, practically eliminated consumer price sensitivity, and suppressed wages.
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.
The Break Up Big Medicine Act makes no mention of the laws and government programs responsible for consolidation of the health care industry.
Delphi-2M was trained on the world's most comprehensive biomedical database with health information from over 400,000 people.
Is Medical Aid in Dying a fundamental right? Or a slippery slope toward state-supported suicide?
I didn’t really understand the power of Medical Aid in Dying until I received my terminal diagnosis.
Empowering patients is good. Let’s give them a lot more choice and independence.
“Free” healthcare costs a lot in personal time and taxpayer money.
The decision isn't a value judgment. It's a recognition that nursing school is usually cheaper than medical school.
A forgotten Guinness brewer's alternative approach could have prevented 100 years of mistakes in medicine, economics, and more.
A Northwestern University clinical study found that generative AI sped up radiology documentation by 15.5 percent.
The most common uses of "magic mushrooms" will never gain FDA approval.
The posts were "downplaying the severity of the COVID pandemic, promoting the use of ivermectin over a vaccine, and criticizing the government's response to the pandemic."
Surgeon General Joseph A. Ladapo proposed ending the requirement that public school children be vaccinated, calling the mandate "slavery."
Many people prefer naturally produced over man-made. But isn't there something just as compelling about the stuff that thousands of people collaborated to make?
The appeals court held that the government may require COVID-19 shots based purely on the benefits to recipients.
This “public health” position has long been a sinecure for professional activists.
Medical school is so expensive in the first place because of a policy that gives medical students unlimited access to loans.
In Greed to Do Good, a former CDC physician calls the agency's war on opioids a disaster.
With the culture war blazing, not even the Supreme Court could agree on the medical facts of the case.
The Health and Human Services secretary appointed several anti-vaxxer-adjacent members to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
Ailing Americans are winning expanded freedom to try experimental medicine.
Drugs like Ozempic might not only address obesity but also alcoholism, smoking, and drug addiction.
The Trump administration has cut billions in federal funding for medical research, as Kennedy singles out private funders for criticism.
Nominees include stories on inflation breaking brains, America's first drug war, Afghans the U.S. left behind, Javier Milei, and much more.
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