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Q&A with Dr. Vinay Prasad, a practicing hematologist-oncologist and associate professor in the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco
More evidence that the public health bureaucracy dropped the ball when a once-in-a-generation pandemic hit.
Congress used the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to throw money around in ways that would be comedic if the results weren't so tragic.
Police are being asked to handle kids broken by failures of public schooling.
The same agency that brought us security theater continues to enforce a rule that never made sense.
The White House's latest attempt to scapegoat rising prices ignores everything that happened before the past three weeks.
But the bill is still a mess.
The city's private employer vaccine mandate is not just an overreaching policy; it's now a completely nonsensical and ineffective one.
The essayist and cultural critic talked about her new book Love in the Time of Contagion, at a live event in New York City.
The court ruled the CDC can continue to use its public health power to expel migrants, but not to countries where they are likely to face persecution or torture.
The record number of reduced sentences still represented a tiny share of the federal prison population.
The agency ignores downward trends in both kinds of nicotine use and obscures the huge difference in the hazards they pose.
The punishment is a bit rich considering the government's own mishandling of pandemic cash.
The policy, which covers trains, buses, and subways as well, is now set to expire on April 18.
A federal judge wrote that migrants could face "horrific consequences" if expelled to certain places, particularly Mexico and Central American countries.
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The Love in the Time of Contagion author says sexual paranoia is on the rise.
The experience in Texas shows that workarounds pose daunting obstacles to such laws.
A spending bill provision would redefine "tobacco products" to include products that have nothing to do with tobacco.
Then why even have a legislature?
Robert Califf must demand transparency and accountability from the bureaucrats.
Disagreement over pandemic policy accelerates the slide toward authoritarianism in another country.
San Fransicko author Michael Shellenberger on homelessness, crime, addiction, and his differences with progressives and libertarians.
2.5 million dead bees, and an unlikely test of public health powers.
We must face the reality that the debt does matter.
The surgeon general's definition of misinformation includes statements that are arguably or verifiably true.
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New U.N. report says we are about to "miss a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable and sustainable future for all."
The Supreme Court is considering what standard should apply to prescribers accused of violating the Controlled Substances Act.
"If I do my job right, you should barely know I'm here."
ACLU: “The agency’s new rule substitutes parents’ judgment as to what medical care is in the best interests of their children for the judgment of the government.”
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Patients suffer when physicians who prescribe opioids in good faith can face decades in prison.
Attendees at Biden's State of the Union speech were almost entirely unmasked.
The bill is the latest sign of strange new respect for drugs that were once routinely depicted as menaces to body and soul.
A series of bills introduced in the state Legislature would prohibit city councils and county courts from adopting their own eviction moratoriums.
The COVID-conscious advice from the federal government's primary disaster response agency is silly. It's also outdated.
The agency emphasizes that children face a very low risk from COVID-19, which it has known all along.
Charter schools thrived on the freedom to make quick decisions and appeal to like-minded families.
Mocking COVID public health theater is finally going mainstream.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky stressed that people could continue to wear masks if they wanted to.
The new Hulu miniseries promotes pernicious misconceptions about opioids, addiction, and pain treatment.
From the CDC to the FDA, there are too many missteps to list.
