Health

Policy

I'm Not Going to Pay Too Much for That Ovum

Jacob Sullum | 5.16.2007 11:18 AM

Policy

A Little Like a Dying Clown, With a Streak of Rin Tin Tin

Radley Balko | 5.15.2007 1:25 PM

Policy

Purdue Pharma's Crushing Defeat

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2007 12:52 PM

Policy

Startling New Finding: Smoke Is Thicker Near Smokers

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2007 5:31 PM

Policy

LA's Toilet Envy

Nick Gillespie | 5.3.2007 3:19 PM

Policy

KFC Lawsuit Dismissed

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2007 4:43 PM

Policy

Good Cop, Bad Doctor

William Hurwitz's conviction tells physicians to put drug control above pain control

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2007 6:17 AM

Policy

Was Linus Pauling Off by One Letter?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2007 5:31 PM

Politics

Muddleheaded Medical Meddling

By upholding the partial-birth abortion ban, the Supreme Court lets Congress play doctor.

Jacob Sullum | 4.25.2007 6:57 AM

Policy

Hurwitz Trial Update

Jacob Sullum | 4.24.2007 3:21 PM

Policy

Is Antidepressant a Misnomer?

Jacob Sullum | 4.19.2007 11:30 AM

Policy

Cho Seung-Hui and Psychiatric Incompetence

Jacob Sullum | 4.19.2007 10:35 AM

Policy

John Tierney on William Hurwitz

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2007 12:25 PM

Policy

Because It Feels So Good When You Stop

Jacob Sullum | 3.28.2007 11:55 AM

Policy

Second Hurwitz Trial

Jacob Sullum | 3.26.2007 10:50 AM

Policy

Big Business in Body Parts

Biotech firms make healthy profits from tissue sales. Why not the rest of us?

Kerry Howley | 3.6.2007 3:41 PM

Policy

Benign Cells?

Cancer and Mobile Phones

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2007 10:45 AM

Policy

"Remove Child Before Folding" And Other Modern Prose Poems

The fine art of idiotic warning labels

Nick Gillespie | 2.26.2007 5:16 AM

Politics

HIV Skepticism Gets A Day in Court Down Under

Brian Doherty | 2.22.2007 7:36 PM

Policy

Injecting Speed

Why the rush to require the HPV vaccine?

Jesse Walker | 2.20.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

A Szaszian Rorschach Test

Brian Doherty | 2.5.2007 10:35 PM

Policy

How "the Gift of Life" Comes Up Short

Nick Gillespie | 1.29.2007 8:15 AM

Policy

Cancer Takes a Holiday

Nick Gillespie | 1.18.2007 10:22 AM

Policy

How 'Big Nutrition' Destroys Your Will to Fatness

Awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.

Greg Beato | 1.11.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

Who Owns Your Organs?

So You Can't Sell Your Kidneys. Can You Give Them Away?

Kerry Howley | 12.29.2006 9:58 AM

Policy

Evidence, Schmevidence, Says the Ralph Nader of the Tobacco Industry

Jacob Sullum | 12.6.2006 9:20 AM

Policy

One More Reason To Hate the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Nick Gillespie | 11.27.2006 7:50 AM

Policy

Drugs Bring on Paranoia

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.9.2006 2:20 PM

Policy

Trans Fat Free at Last

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 12:51 PM

Policy

Should We All Be Like Mike?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 11:35 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Transformation

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 12:42 PM

Policy

Lay Off the Fatties

They're not hurting anybody -- maybe not even themselves.

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 7:29 AM

Policy

How the Upper Crust Eats

Food as a status symbol

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.25.2006 12:27 PM

Policy

Can We Ever Spend Too Much on Biomedical Research?

The answer depends on whom you're asking.

Ronald Bailey | 10.6.2006 3:53 PM

Policy

Foul Shot

Autism and the MMR vaccine

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2006 9:45 AM

Policy

Rant: The Night Chicago Died

Suddenly, it's hard to be a sinner in the Windy City

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2006 11:56 AM

Policy

The Accidental Drug Trafficker

A repudiation of prosecutions that treat doctors' errors in judgment as felonies

Jacob Sullum | 8.30.2006 9:56 AM

Policy

The Fried Logic of Food Police

Trans fat in fast food? Who knew?

Jacob Sullum | 8.18.2006 10:27 AM

Policy

AIDS at 25

Where do we stand?

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2006 1:55 PM

Policy

Abraham vs. Hodgkin

Is a 16-year-old wise enough to decide to skip chemotherapy?

Cathy Young | 8.1.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Polio, Autism, or Neither?

The autism/vaccine scandal dissipates

Ronald Bailey | 7.24.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

The Battle for Roethlisberger's Brain

Is freedom just another word for falling on your face?

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Patent Remedies

Do we need drug patents?

Brian Doherty | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Are Yanks Sicker Than Brits?

Or are we just a bunch of hypochondriacs?

Ronald Bailey | 5.26.2006 11:12 AM

Politics

Pop Out

The new school beverage policy won't make students noticeably thinner

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2006 10:14 AM

Policy

Of Penises and Pesticides

Are synthetic chemicals responsible for male shortcomings?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 11:06 AM