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?"
"Students were misreading exam questions at an astonishing rate," says Maitland Jones Jr.
Green activists have some good points. But the pursuit of a chemical-free world hurts vulnerable people the most.
The psychiatrist and Good Chemistry author has written the definitive account of "the science of connection from soul to psychedelics."
It’s a small step toward breaking down barriers between patients and innovative medicine.
"It was learning by doing," says one ambulance driver. "Most things that happen here are done by volunteers, not government officials."
The CDC, which issued disastrous pain treatment advice in 2016, is still pushing a narrative contradicted by recent data.
The Supreme Court decision overturning Roe has made bad law and bad medicine
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One vaccination requires 100 pages of government paperwork to be processed before treatment.
The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions.
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Paralyzing caution reveals the risks of vague anti-abortion legislation.
Foot-dragging and red tape by the CDC and the FDA have fueled an avoidable outbreak.
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Alabama's attorney general argues such medical transitioning is not rooted in America’s history and therefore not constitutionally protected.
The FDA could work with the Department of Justice to sue states over mifepristone bans. But should it?
The unanimous decision will rein in prosecutions that have long had a chilling effect on pain treatment.
But the Chinese government continues to stonewall independent investigations.
Doctors can’t help people in pain because of restrictive opioid policy.
How did something so at odds with reality persist for so long? And why is it finally crumbling?
The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.
Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.
The bill is the latest sign of strange new respect for drugs that were once routinely depicted as menaces to body and soul.
Protectionist policies are why the U.S. has few physicians and high prices.
These orders aren’t about safety. They’re a complete rejection of the legitimacy of these procedures, and a denial of individual liberty.
The proposed guidelines emphasize the need for individualized treatment and collaboration with patients.
"A plague of this kind has been seen as a national security threat by right-wing and left-wing administrations for decades," Christakis says. "Yet I saw nothing to prepare us."
Phase 1 testing begins on new vaccine based on mRNA advances.
Researchers are making great progress overcoming the problems that have long plagued attempts at xenotransplantation.
The New York Times and The Washington Post shamed the recipient of a pig heart transplant for committing a crime 35 years ago.
Ronald Bailey and Jacob Sullum on the future of COVID-19, the politicization of science, the failure of mandates, and how to talk with anti-vaxxers.
Researchers are still uncertain about how severe the variant will be.
Federal regulators have permanently lifted a requirement that mifepristone be dispensed in person.
The TV personality's extensive history of promoting dubious nostrums suggests that he isn't.
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