The Rise and Fall of the New York City Tattoo Ban
How government regulators tried to kill the skin & ink trade.
Public Health
LA Health Inspectors Shut Down "Dumb Starbucks"
Lack of permits, not a potential trademark violation, got the parody store shut down
TSA Criticized After Cancer Patient is Humiliated at Checkpoint
Wife of the patient, who wears a diaper because of prostate cancer, claims a TSA agent laughed at him
CVS To Stop Selling Tobacco Products By Oct. 1
Will lose around $2 billion a year as a result
Bill Gates Explains How World Is Getting More Awesome and Less Poor
Mythbusting naysayers about third-world development
Uncle Sam's Drinking Game
The federal government's definition of excessive alcohol consumption mixes medicine with moralism.
59 Patients Contract TB After Being Exposed in Nevada Hospital
Nothing to cough at
Vaping Gives Politicians the Vapors
New York extends its smoking ban to e-cigarettes because they look too much like the real thing.
Pediatrics Group Wants Nationwide Ban on Raw Milk
Warn pregnant women and children not to drink it
California Regulators Attempt to Kill Sriracha
Why did state regulators shut down the company's sales for a month and push the hot sauce's maker to consider leaving the state?
Vaccines and the Responsibility To Not Put Others at Risk
Ronald Bailey responds to Dr. Jeffrey Singer's "Vaccination and Free Choice"
Vaccination and Free Choice
Vaccination is a wise idea, but in a free society, we must tolerate bad choices.
FDA Wants Proof Anti-Bacterial Soap Safe For Long Term Use
Says the soaps could cause bacterial resistance and have hormonal effects
Madagascar Officials: 20 Dead in Suspected Bubonic Plague Outbreak
Twenty others being treated
French Court Rules E-Cigarettes are a Tobacco Product, Even Though They Contain No Tobacco
Can't laugh at France, same thing's happening in America
Biden To Announce $100 Million To Improve Mental Health Services
Will make the announcement at meeting with relatives of Sandy Hook shooting victims
Princeton Turns to Mass Vaccinations to Stop Meningitis Outbreak
Will try to inject 6,000 students
Gene Therapy Yields Encouraging Results in Experimental Leukemia Treatment
Cells engineered to attack cancer
