The past three administrations have tried to limit gain-of-function research. The second Trump administration might be the first one to be successful at doing so.
Mandating negligible nicotine levels in tobacco products would create a big black market and criminalize currently legal transactions.
The focus on the health risks of alcohol consumption gives short shrift to the reasons people like to drink.
A New York Times essay helps illustrate why the surgeon general's new report on alcohol and cancer leaves out crucial context and nuance.
Evidence continues to accumulate that non-tobacco-flavored vaping products can help reduce or discourage smoking.
The evidence is vast but open to interpretation because observational studies are inherently ambiguous.
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A growing body of evidence suggests bans on flavored vaping products will result in more young people smoking, but the FDA does not seem to care.
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Clozapine is the only drug approved for treatment-resistant schizophrenia. So why does the FDA make it so hard to prescribe?
An e-liquid manufacturer is challenging the FDA's "arbitrary and capricious" rejection of flavored vaping products.
The federal government can't make the right health choices for you and your family. Only you can do that.
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The Affordable Care Act has become a broken welfare program for people who don't need it.
You might as well lose some weight while you’re losing your mind.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for President, but now he isn't and he does not want to be on the ballot in states where that might hurt Trump.
The state has been demanding that TV stations remove political ads in support of a reproductive freedom amendment on the ballot this year.
A recent American Cancer Society study reports a negligible risk from passive smoking, shedding new light on the uproar over a 2003 paper.
Both presidential candidates (and their running mates) seem confused about the constraints imposed by the First Amendment.
On Call, Anthony Fauci's new memoir, can't disguise the damage caused by his COVID-19 policies.
Despite anti-immigrant rhetoric, the foreign-born account for nearly 20 percent less public health spending than those born in America.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
The FDA’s latest nutrition rules target dried cherries and cranberries, putting small farmers at risk while offering zero benefits to consumers.
America's COVID celebrity is facing scrutiny for funding risky research that may have sparked the pandemic—and for allegedly covering it up.
The Minnesota governor actually defended the state's disastrous nursing home policies.
According to a new report, the average eighth-grader needs over nine months of extra school time to catch up with pre-COVID achievement levels.
The president's decision to drop out after insisting he never would continued a pattern established by a long career of politically convenient reversals.
Author Matt Ridley debates virologist Stephen Goldstein on the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
Even the mask mandators are done with once-ubiquitous pandemic precautions.
Even if EcoHealth's "basic research" in Wuhan didn't cause the pandemic, it certainly failed in its mission to stop it.
The 5th Circuit ruled that the agency violated the Administrative Procedure Act when it rejected applications from manufacturers of flavored nicotine e-liquids.
The Harm Reduction Gap argues for individual autonomy and meeting drug users where they're at.
In between insanities, the erratic Republican was considerably more right about COVID-19 policy in September 2020 than the smug Democrat or the scoldy journalist.
"It’s not like public health is infallible," the Stanford professor and Great Barrington Declaration author tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.
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The agency's inscrutable approach to harm-reducing nicotine products sacrifices consumer choice and public health on the altar of youth protection.
No, but a Stanford psychologist says people under age 21 should be banned from buying some nonalcoholic drinks to protect kids from "drinking culture."
As the DEA relentlessly tightens regulations on pain meds, the FDA refuses to approve a safer alternative already being used in similar countries.
Sen. Rand Paul explains why FOIA litigation shouldn’t have been necessary to find this out.
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Policies that increase the use of traditional cigarettes are unlikely to improve public health.
Bhattacharya explains the stakes of Murthy v. Missouri, the politicization of medical research, and his RFK Jr. endorsement.
