The GOP Health-Care Reform Plans Are Worse Than Useless: Nick Gillespie on Kennedy
What part of "First, Do No MORE Harm" do congressional Republicans not understand?
What part of "First, Do No MORE Harm" do congressional Republicans not understand?
Not a radical reformer, but clearly understands how overregulation is slowing medical innovation
Cures for HIV/AIDS and specifically targeted antibiotics
Especially if it turns out to be valuable?
Here's hoping that we've not been born one generation too early.
Two new studies report experiments that successfully reverse aging
A live debate at the Soho Forum in New York City.
The right to armed self-defense is not a license to muzzle nosy doctors.
More than a 34 percent to 56 percent decrease in homicides attributed to the 911 systems
Good news: Cancer mortality rate has dropped from its peak of 215.1 (per 100,000 population) in 1991 to 166.4 in 2012.
Who wants to live to be a 100? Someone who is 99 years old. Especially if he feels like a 25 year-old.
A single dose of the banned psychedelic led to large and lasting psychological improvements.
Banned in 1985, the "empathogen" could be legally available as a psychotherapeutic catalyst as soon as 2021.
The venerable British medical journal urges governments to "investigate more effective alternatives to criminalisation of drug use and supply."
The DEA's backtracking underlines the arbitrariness of the government's pharmacological taboos.
Because why stop at preserving the memory of a loved one?
The agency's ban on the pain-relieving leaf shows how arbitrary the government's pharmacological taboos are.
Terminally ill patients in Golden State will now be able to legally use medicines not yet out of the FDA's approval process that might help them.
A new study adds to the evidence that letting patients use cannabis saves lives by reducing consumption of pharmaceuticals.
A new study adds to the evidence that patients are substituting marijuana for opioids.
"Our goal is to make sure this is available," a spokesman says.
Drug company Mylan is able to charge monopoly prices due to government regulation, not free-market forces.
Last year a woman went into respiratory failure when a medic shot her with ketamine to help cops subdue her.
Capitalism isn't to blame. It's the exact opposite.
Short dramatic film from Institute for Justice lays out the case for paying the people who give marrow, organs, and more.
With NIDA as the only legal source of cannabis for research, meeting FDA requirements was impossible.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has always been an alliance of big business and big government.
Has the entire U.S. Olympic team fallen for the superstition of cupping?
After a dog supposedly alerted to her at a border crossing, she endured six hours of fruitless body cavity searches.
Before the medical professionals figured out what was causing an outbreak, country and blues musicians were on the case.
Nearly 2 years more of disability-free life expectancy
Whether he's right about the GOP presidential nominee, Chopra has a lot of explaining to do about why his brand of medicine gets taxpayer support.
Vascular Solutions CEO Howard Root faced years of jail time in a legal battle over off-label use that has profound implications for medical innovation in America.
Reason's choice of SXSW's innovator awards
To shrink the supply of opioids, the agency encourages doctors to be suspicious and stingy.
Why should not men be eligible for uterine transplants?
England's National Health Service years behind in understanding treatment needs.
What happens when cancer doctors, psychologists, and drug developers can't rely on each other's research?
States are moving to make contraception more accessible, with the charge being led by Republican men.
New collaboration announced to use precision medicine techniques to cure cancer
I'm a bioethicist, and I am here to help slow down scientific and medical progress
"Right to try" laws offer hope for people trying to save their own lives.
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