What a Headache: California Regulators Want To Label Acetaminophen a Carcinogen
The science is unsettled, and a new warning label would probably just confuse people.
Pharmaceuticals
Terminal Patients Got Drugs Without FDA Approval. It Added Years to Their Lives.
The Right to Try movement, which recently became federal law, allows doctors to prescribe experimental treatments that haven't been approved for sale by regulators.
FDA Chief and Vaping Opponent Scott Gottlieb Is Leaving the Food and Drug Administration
When and wherever public health conflicted with personal freedom, Gottlieb advocated for the former.
Sen. Warren Has a Plan to Socialize Pharmaceuticals: Reason Roundup
Plus: Tumblr porn filters catch company's own examples of permitted content and how the GOP learned to love bailouts.
Drug Companies, Scared of Regulation, Inch Toward Price Transparency
"Our vision for a new, more transparent drug-pricing system does not rely on voluntary action," says HHS Secretary Alex Azar.
Sears Is Filing for Bankruptcy Because Capitalism Has Given Us Better Options: Reason Roundup
Plus: Parkour robots, price transparency for drugs, and Hillary Clinton defending Bill over the Lewinsky affair
There Is No Such Thing as a Free Pharma Lunch (Anymore)
Initiatives to curb drug-maker influence have endangered medical workers, patients, and the healthcare system.
Expect Fully Legal Weed Within 5 Years, Says Former Top Pharma Lobbyist and Congressman Billy Tauzin
He has been a Democrat, a Republican, a lobbyist, and a cancer survivor. Now he wants to end the war on weed.
A 'Right to Try' Bill Is Finally Heading to Trump's Desk
It's still not clear whether pharmaceutical companies will work with patients outside the FDA's supervision.
Is Trump Just Doing the Crazy Things Republicans Always Promised?: Podcast
From ripping families apart to nominating a torture-enabler as CIA director, the administration is calling the GOP's bluff, Reason editors argue.
President Trump: Competition Is the Solution to High Drug Prices
Change drug prices by changing the market.
Scott Gottlieb Is Not a Free Market Firebrand
The FDA chief's mixed, moderate record has surprised both his champions and his critics.
Trump and Trial Lawyers Target Drug Companies Over Opioid Addiction
Making drug-company shareholders foot the bill for a public health crisis is flaky and counterproductive.
Right To Try Laws Are a Fine Start. Comprehensive Reform of the FDA's Drug Trials Would Be Better.
The drug regulator's clinical trials process for approving drugs needs a complete overhaul.
D.C. Deregulates Birth Control…and Dooms It With Obamacare Add-Ons
The change would put D.C. in line with a rapidly rising number of states allowing pharmacist-prescribed oral contraceptives.
Misdiagnosing Causes and Casualties in the Opioid War [Corrected]
Do the pain relief benefits of prescription opioids outweigh their addiction risks?
California Enacts Likely Ineffective Drug Price Transparency Law
What will really keep drug (and any other) prices lower? Competition.
Mayor Bill de Blasio: The Perfect Ayn Rand Villain [Podcast]
Reason editors talk immigration, affirmative action, and why the "Pharma Bro" witch hunt should concern everyone.
Will All Seriously Ill Americans Be Granted the 'Right to Try' Experimental Meds?
Senate approves bill giving some earlier access to treatment.
Deregulation and Market Forces Can Lower Pharmaceutical Prices
The pharmaceutical market is anything but free at present.
The FDA Commissioner's Novel Plan for Cutting Drug Prices: Competition
Make pharmaceutical competition great again.
EpiPen Not Overpriced, Despite New York Times Complaint
Contrary to what The New York Times claims, the outcry over EpiPen prices has made them lower.
Scott Gottlieb Confirmed as New FDA Commissioner
Not a radical reformer, but clearly understands how overregulation is slowing medical innovation
Scott Gottlieb: Trump's Nominee for Food and Drug Administration Commissioner
Understands how over-regulation is slowing down innovation in medicines and foods
President Trump: Pharmaceutical Price Controls Are a Bad Idea
Americans would save some money now, but at the long-run cost of sicker and shorter lives
Trump and Medicare Drug Price Controls: New at Reason
The unintended consequences to Americans' lives and health would be substantial and bad
Trump and How to Speed Up FDA Regulatory Approvals
Slashing the restraints on the agency's slow and burdensome process.
How Idaho's Drug Warriors Stole Hope from Epileptic Kids
A Reason investigation uncovers how cops, prosecutors, and lobbyists conspired to restrict a promising cannabis-derived seizure treatment.
Pill-Induced Abortions on the Rise in America. Why That's a Good Thing
At Planned Parenthood clinics, 43 percent of all abortions are now drug-induced, not surgical.
Opioid Maker Donates to Help Halt Marijuana Legalization in Arizona
As if fentanyl's public relations aren't bad enough.
Broken Science
What happens when cancer doctors, psychologists, and drug developers can't rely on each other's research?
Price Controls Will Slow Drug Innovation
Ballot box is the wrong place to debate drug-price intricacies, in California or anywhere else.
Should Terminal Patients Be Allowed to Try Experimental Drugs?
"Right to try" laws offer hope for people trying to save their own lives.
The New York Times Complains of Drug Price Hikes While Raising Its Own Subscription Fees
The freedom to set prices free of government coercion makes for better newspapers and better medicine.
Hillary Clinton's Plan to Control Drug Prices Is Symptomatic of a Failed National Health Care Policy
The vast reach of government as a payer for health care means that drug companies are to a large degree government contractors, and patients are suffering.
Dying Patients vs. the FDA: 'Right to Try' Laws Give Hope—And Time
Dave Huntley was a father, husand, & triathlete who contracted Lou Gehrig's Disease. But the FDA was his biggest foe.
Smart Drug Modafinil 'Safe for Widespread Use,' Scientists Say
Modafinil is "one of the most promising neuroenhancers to date"-and still a controlled substance in the U.S.
FDA Worried About Kim Kardashian Morning Sickness Post on Instagram
Slaps pharmaceutical company with warning letter.
Over-the-Counter Birth Control Bill Provokes Irrational Ire on the Left
Subsidized birth control pills for some women shouldn't come at the expense of easing access restrictions for all.
Larry Flynt Fights to Shed Light on Missouri's Mysterious Death Penalty Drugs
Missouri, like many states, is secretive about the drugs it uses in executions.
