Medicine

Policy

CDC-Sponsored Study Finds No Neurological Damage From Light to Moderate Drinking During Pregnancy

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2012 3:11 AM

Politics

HIV Revisionism in Fort Bragg Acquittal

Tim Cavanaugh | 6.12.2012 11:09 AM

Policy

How Many Men Does It Take to Overcome the 'Superhuman Strength' of a Perp or Patient Fortified by 'Bath Salts'?

Jacob Sullum | 6.5.2012 3:04 PM

Policy

How Psychiatrists Make Drugs More Addictive

Jacob Sullum | 5.14.2012 4:21 PM

Policy

Why Is Nurse Jackie's Drug Habit a Problem?

Jacob Sullum | 5.3.2012 12:57 PM

Policy

Tiny Painkiller Junkies?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2012 2:29 PM

Contraception

From Pelvic Torture to Pharmaceutical Freedom

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2012 9:50 AM

Policy

The Cure for the Common Hangover

A Las Vegas doctor treats the sick and needy

Greg Beato | 4.26.2012 4:30 PM

Politics

Building a 21st Century FDA

A better way to fast track new pills for old ills

Ronald Bailey | 4.24.2012 4:45 PM

Policy

The Government's Medical Meddling Hurts Pain Patients

Jacob Sullum | 4.9.2012 3:31 PM

Politics

The Coming Medical Ethics Crisis

How the government is putting the medical profession-and your health-at risk

Jeffrey A. Singer | 3.15.2012 1:30 PM

Policy

How About Fighting Meth Use by Not Requiring a Prescription for Pseudoephedrine? It Works Just As Well.

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2012 7:16 PM

Politics

Maybe We Need Less Democracy and More Corruption

Jacob Sullum | 3.1.2012 5:32 PM

Policy

The Missing Parts of the Drug Czar's Whitney Houston "teachable moment"

Brian Doherty | 2.15.2012 2:09 PM

Politics

Ludwig von Mises Approved of Birth Control, But So What?

Brian Doherty | 2.13.2012 8:31 PM

Policy

If You Recover From Asperger's, You Never Really Had It

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2012 2:59 PM

Policy

Sativex: Fast for Patients, Slow for Potheads

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2012 12:56 PM

Policy

The Raw Milk Party vs. the Party of Pot and Veganism

Jacob Sullum | 1.6.2012 5:00 PM

Policy

Does the DEA Know What Quota Means?

Jacob Sullum | 1.3.2012 6:07 PM

Policy

Why Is There an Adderall Shortage? Because Demand Exceeds Supply. Duh.

Jacob Sullum | 12.28.2011 1:15 PM

Policy

Pain Patient Advocate Siobhan Reynolds Dies in Plane Crash

Jacob Sullum | 12.26.2011 1:34 PM

Politics

Great Women of Egypt; Lori Berenson On Parole; Lie of the Year: PM Links

Tim Cavanaugh | 12.20.2011 5:12 PM

Policy

Drop Those Drugs

Jacob Sullum | 11.16.2011 4:37 PM

Policy

Parents Heedlessly Let Kids Play With Smart Phones

Jacob Sullum | 10.28.2011 4:45 PM

Policy

Pediatrician Group Seeks to Boost ADHD Diagnoses

Jacob Sullum | 10.18.2011 6:42 PM

Politics

Conrad Murray Open Thread

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.14.2011 7:16 PM

Policy

When Fighting Cancer Is Folly

Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.

Steve Chapman | 10.13.2011 7:00 AM

Politics

Diagnosing in the Dark

The continuing relevance of Thomas Szasz's assault on psychiatric pretensions

Jacob Sullum | 9.27.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

If Traffic Deaths Were Rising, Would the Los Angeles Times Be Less Alarmed?

Jacob Sullum | 9.21.2011 5:31 PM

Politics

Has Rick Perry Neutralized the Gardasil Controversy?

Jacob Sullum | 9.14.2011 12:20 PM

Policy

Because 25 Years for 25 Grams of Percocet Was Not Tough Enough

Jacob Sullum | 9.1.2011 12:43 PM

Policy

How Many Medical Marijuana Patients Are Fakers? Does It Matter?

Jacob Sullum | 8.5.2011 4:44 PM

Politics

Among the Biotech Conventioneers

A dispatch on the value of failed drugs, new vaccines against superbugs, and the prospect of a molecular stethoscope.

Ronald Bailey | 6.28.2011 4:30 PM

Policy

Marcia Angell on 'The Illusions of Psychiatry' (Part II)

Jacob Sullum | 6.24.2011 12:04 PM

Policy

The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything: 20 to 30

Jacob Sullum | 6.23.2011 4:06 PM

Politics

What Will Holder Say About Medical Marijuana?

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2011 5:20 PM

Policy

Another Victory in Drug Harm Multiplication

Jacob Sullum | 6.22.2011 4:49 PM

Policy

The Government's Top Minds Are Working Hard to Make Painkillers 'Tightly Regulated Yet Easily Available'

Jacob Sullum | 6.15.2011 11:55 AM

Policy

Half of Us Are Mentally Ill (and the Other Half Are Undiagnosed)

Jacob Sullum | 6.13.2011 4:47 PM

Policy

Ends and Means

Suicide is not a medical procedure.

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2011 7:00 AM

Policy

But Remember: Marijuana Is Not Medicine

Jacob Sullum | 5.25.2011 5:29 PM

Policy

Will Comparative Effectiveness Research Kill More People Than It Helps?

Consumers, not bureaucrats, should make healthcare decisions.

Ronald Bailey | 5.24.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

A Fate Worse Than Death Panels?

Legislation that would improve access to pain medication for the elderly is five months behind schedule, and no one will say why.

Mike Riggs | 5.20.2011 10:30 AM

Policy

How the Government Promotes Heroin Use

Jacob Sullum | 5.9.2011 4:58 PM

Policy

Could Eating Less Salt Be Deadly?

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2011 1:01 PM

Policy

Smallpox and Civil Liberties

Damon Root | 4.29.2011 2:20 PM