A Strange Museum Takes a Strange Turn
Attempts to limit access to the Mütter Museum’s collection of medical oddities disrespect the living and the dead.
Attempts to limit access to the Mütter Museum’s collection of medical oddities disrespect the living and the dead.
Global warming is an issue. But there are other pressing problems that deserve the world's attention.
Drug tests for new moms are "unnecessary and nonconsensual," argues the ACLU.
South Carolina will now only require a certificate of need for long-term care facilities, opening the health care market to smaller providers.
A lawyer for the family speculates that jail officials balked at the medication's high price.
The U.S. tax system is extremely progressive, even compared to European countries—whose governments rely on taxing the middle class.
More than 3,000 Americans die each year waiting for a bone marrow donor. Be the Match still refuses to compensate donors.
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Why won’t the FDA allow women to buy a safer product without requiring a doctor’s visit that medical experts think is unnecessary?
He was hospitalized multiple times for diabetes while in state custody.
It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
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Eliminating taxation on compensation for being a human guinea pig is just good public policy.
Thanks to onerous regulations, life-saving drugs are more expensive and harder to get.
Two New Jersey women who gave birth last fall suffered harrowing ordeals thanks to their breakfast choices.
"I know either way he will use it against me.... And after the fact, I know he will try to act like he has some right to the decision," said the woman in text messages to her friends named as defendants in the suit.
Each year, the DEA sets production limits for certain drugs, including some ingredients in common amphetamine pills like Adderall.
The law allows abortions when there is a "medical emergency"—but what qualifies as an emergency?
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On Friday, the DEA unveiled a plan to restrict doctors' ability to prescribe controlled drugs over telehealth.
Since the Federal Trade Commission didn't sue in time, the deal went through. But will FTC Chair Lina Khan keep trying to attack Amazon for its bigness?
The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version.
By restricting private health care choices, the NHS and other beloved single-payer systems were doomed from the start.
Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.
One federal judge thought the state's new restrictions on medical advice were clear, while another saw a hopeless muddle.
U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb says the law is unconstitutionally vague.
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The mysteries of the mind are harder to unravel than psychiatrists pretend.
State actors are increasingly willing to seize children even with little evidence of child abuse.
The long-term economic and social impacts of zero-COVID can't be reversed as easily.
You can’t turn lives and economies off and on without inflicting lingering harm.
"You have this looming power over you that essentially can end your career," says Stanford's Jay Bhattacharya.
In times of public health crises, government red tape and misguided communication make matters worse.
Last week, a Kansas judge halted the enforcement of a law requiring a doctor to be in the same room as a patient taking abortion pills—a move hailed by abortion advocates as an important step to increase medication abortion access in the state.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
The state is threatening to punish doctors whose advice deviates from the "scientific consensus."
To be eligible for a pardon, patients will have to obtain cannabis from other states and document their diagnoses and purchases.
"This is an extraordinarily disturbing finding" that "represents a catastrophic failure by the Federal government to respect basic human rights."
Two chapters of the organization say the law violates the First Amendment.
It's best to avoid sparking up a doobie on a spaceship, but there are other ways to consume substances in the cosmos.
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.
The law authorizes regulators to discipline physicians who deviate from the "contemporary scientific consensus."
Voters will soon cast ballots on a constitutional amendment that seeks to explicitly remove any protections for abortion in the state's constitution.
Out-of-state and self-managed abortions pose daunting challenges for pro-life legislators.
The report highlights the power and limits of state bans as well as the difficulty of measuring their impact.
"It was a waiting game, the most horrific version of a staring contest: Whose life would end first? Mine, or my daughter's?"