If Vaping Causes Smoking, Why Are Cigarettes Less Popular Than Ever With Teenagers?
The CDC's data belie its warnings about e-cigarettes.
Health
Philadelphia's New Soda Tax Has Nothing to Do With Obesity
The city council rejected regressive paternalism in favor of a simple money grab.
Americans Are Living Healthier Longer
Nearly 2 years more of disability-free life expectancy
Deepak Chopra Blames Donald Trump For Making the Guru Call the Billionaire "Retarded"
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.
The IRS Warned the Obama Administration That Its Decision to Pay Obamacare Subsidies to Insurers Was Illegal
Tax agency risk officer was shown dubious legal justification in secret 2014 meeting.
Hillary's Habits of Haughtiness
The email controversy recapitulates themes from Clinton's handling of health care reform.
NHS Again Denies Access to HIV Prevention Drug Because of Bureaucracy
Government control of healthcare gets dangerous when there are entrenched interests.
Clueless Legislators Deter Smokers From Vaping
California undermines public health by arbitrarily classifying e-cigarettes as tobacco products.
California Undermines Public Health by Treating E-Cigarettes Like the Real Thing
Classifying vaping devices as tobacco products will deter smokers from making a switch that could save their lives.
Don't Compare Vets' Treatment Wait Times to Disney Park Lines
The private sector strives to improve, while the government agency makes excuses.
Judge Won't Halt San Francisco's Forced Nanny State Soda Warnings
Did you know sugar helps make you fat? Of course you did.
Why Vape? E-Cig Companies Are Not Allowed to Say.
The FDA is suppressing potentially lifesaving information about the health advantages of e-cigarettes.
The FDA's Deadly Censorship of Lifesaving E-Cigarette Information
Regulators won't let manufacturers of vaping hardware and e-liquids tell their customers the truth.
Federal Court Rules That Obamacare Subsidies Were Illegally Funded
Only Congress has the power to appropriate funds.
The New Contraception Mandate: Free Male Sterilization
Vermont joins Maryland in extending the "free birth control" mandate to cover vasectomies.
The FDA's Deadly E-Cigarette Regulations
The agency's new rules threaten products that offer a much safer alternative to smoking.
Transgender Vets Want Their Surgeries Covered
If we're going to publicly fund medical treatments, why should there be an exception here?
Contraceptive Equity Act Promises 'Free' Vasectomies and Emergency Contraception In Maryland
The new state law expands on Obamacare's controversial contraception mandate.
One Company Fought the FDA and Won. What That Victory Means for Medicine.
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.
FDA Imposes a Slow-Motion Ban on E-Cigarettes
The agency's final rule leaves conventional cigarettes on the market while requiring much safer alternatives to meet prohibitive requirements.
A Bold New Plan to Help Addicts and End the Drug War
"Addiction rewires your brain like falling in love does," says Maia Szalavitz, author of "Unbroken Brain."
Government Officials Are Determined to Turn Vapers Into Scofflaws
E-cigarettes aren't just a safer alternative to the real thing, they're an innovation people plan to use whether or not scolds approve.
Royal College of Physicians Says Vaping Saves Lives
The venerable British medical society recognizes the harm-reducing potential of e-cigarettes.
Abortion Clinic Wins Battle Against Shady Florida Bureaucrats
State health agency could provide no evidence "why it suddenly believed that ... the clinic was performing second-trimester abortions," writes judge.
Royal College of Physicians: Vaping Can 'Prevent Almost All The Harm From Smoking'
The British medical group endorses e-cigarettes as a harm-reducing alternative to the conventional kind.
Indian Merchant Gets Three Years of 'Rigorous Imprisonment' for Selling E-Cigarettes
In the name of public health, Punjab treats vaped nicotine as an unapproved medicine.
A Soda Tax As Found Money
Hillary Clinton joins Philadelphia's mayor in playing down the levy's paternalistic purpose.
Yes, Free Markets Would Improve Healthcare Results
John Stossel responds to critics of his last column.
Bernie Sanders Calls Out Hillary Clinton for Supporting Soda Taxes
Nanny tendencies overcome promise not to raise taxes on the less wealthy.
Amendment Could Save the Vaping Industry From Prohibitive FDA Regulations
The reported version of an appropriations bill would change a crucial cutoff date.
Free Markets Would Improve Hospital Service
Instead, hospitals are run like socialist bureaucracies.
Utah Governor Signs Resolution Declaring Porn a 'Public Health Crisis'
Drafted by the group formerly known as Morality in Media, the measure was passed unanimously by Utah lawmakers.
The CDC Keeps Lying About Adolescent Vaping and Tobacco Use
The agency bizarrely counts tobacco-free, noncombustible e-cigarettes as a kind of tobacco.
Lying About Snus and E-Cigarettes Is Like Blocking Access to Clean Heroin Needles
Two public health researchers condemn the "information quarantine" surrounding safer nicotine products.
Abortion Doctors in Alabama Don't Need Hospital Admitting Privileges
"Thousands of women per year" would be "unduly burdened" by the requirement, says a federal judge.
Equating Vaping With Smoking Is Medical Malpractice
Celebrity doctor Margaret Cuomo falsely claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
Celebrity Doctor Insists on Misleading Smokers About Vaping Hazards
Margaret Cuomo claims e-cigarettes are "at least as harmful" as the real thing.
The Little Sisters of the Poor Case Isn't About Contraception. It's About When the Government Can Force You to Violate Your Conscience.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case today.
Physicians Face Moral Dilemma In Conscription on War on Drugs
In the government's new war on opiates, physicians and their patients find themselves caught in the crossfire.
More Americans Are Abandoning Their Health Insurance Plans to Join 'Sharing Ministries'
A consequence of Obamacare's disastrous rollout.
Here's a Federal Program That Actually Does Prevent Foodborne Illnesses
It's based on research and sharing information, not on more regulations.
6 Cool Innovations That Are Making the World a Better Place
Reason's choice of SXSW's innovator awards
CDC Prescription Guidelines Will Leave More Patients in Pain and Drive More Addicts to Heroin
To shrink the supply of opioids, the agency encourages doctors to be suspicious and stingy.
First U.S. Uterus Transplant - Bioethicists Wring Hands
Why should not men be eligible for uterine transplants?
Donald Trump's Health Care Plan Shows His Complete Disdain for Expertise
He's not just clueless-he's willfully ignorant.
