Public Health

Policy

Did Public Health Officials Underreact, Overreact, or Both?

Jacob Sullum | 6.8.2007 4:35 PM

Policy

The Difference a Germ Makes

TB Andrew reminds us what a real public health threat looks like.

Jacob Sullum | 6.6.2007 6:51 AM

Policy

Questions About Quarantine?

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 6.4.2007 5:26 PM

Policy

Maybe Libertarian Paternalism Is an Oxymoron

Jacob Sullum | 5.30.2007 2:01 PM

Politics

An Epidemic of Meddling

The totalitarian implications of public health

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2007 3:02 PM

Policy

'We Should Not Delay in Allowing Snus to Compete'

Jacob Sullum | 5.17.2007 1:55 PM

Policy

A Little Like a Dying Clown, With a Streak of Rin Tin Tin

Radley Balko | 5.15.2007 1:25 PM

Policy

Startling New Finding: Smoke Is Thicker Near Smokers

Jacob Sullum | 5.7.2007 5:31 PM

Policy

LA's Toilet Envy

Nick Gillespie | 5.3.2007 3:19 PM

Policy

KFC Lawsuit Dismissed

Jacob Sullum | 5.2.2007 4:43 PM

Policy

Was Linus Pauling Off by One Letter?

Jacob Sullum | 5.1.2007 5:31 PM

Policy

Benign Cells?

Cancer and Mobile Phones

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2007 10:45 AM

Policy

"Remove Child Before Folding" And Other Modern Prose Poems

The fine art of idiotic warning labels

Nick Gillespie | 2.26.2007 5:16 AM

Politics

HIV Skepticism Gets A Day in Court Down Under

Brian Doherty | 2.22.2007 7:36 PM

Policy

Injecting Speed

Why the rush to require the HPV vaccine?

Jesse Walker | 2.20.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

How 'Big Nutrition' Destroys Your Will to Fatness

Awash in healthy choices, starving brains seek sugary relief.

Greg Beato | 1.11.2007 5:56 AM

Policy

Who Owns Your Organs?

So You Can't Sell Your Kidneys. Can You Give Them Away?

Kerry Howley | 12.29.2006 9:58 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Free at Last

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 12:51 PM

Policy

Should We All Be Like Mike?

Jacob Sullum | 11.1.2006 11:35 AM

Policy

Trans Fat Transformation

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 12:42 PM

Policy

Lay Off the Fatties

They're not hurting anybody -- maybe not even themselves.

Jacob Sullum | 10.30.2006 7:29 AM

Policy

How the Upper Crust Eats

Food as a status symbol

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.25.2006 12:27 PM

Policy

Rant: The Night Chicago Died

Suddenly, it's hard to be a sinner in the Windy City

Nick Gillespie | 9.4.2006 11:56 AM

Policy

The Fried Logic of Food Police

Trans fat in fast food? Who knew?

Jacob Sullum | 8.18.2006 10:27 AM

Policy

AIDS at 25

Where do we stand?

Ronald Bailey | 8.14.2006 1:55 PM

Policy

Abraham vs. Hodgkin

Is a 16-year-old wise enough to decide to skip chemotherapy?

Cathy Young | 8.1.2006 4:03 PM

Policy

Polio, Autism, or Neither?

The autism/vaccine scandal dissipates

Ronald Bailey | 7.24.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

Big Brother Prescribes

Are mandatory aerobics classes in your future?

Ronald Bailey | 7.14.2006 2:23 PM

Policy

The Battle for Roethlisberger's Brain

Is freedom just another word for falling on your face?

Jacob Sullum | 6.21.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Are Yanks Sicker Than Brits?

Or are we just a bunch of hypochondriacs?

Ronald Bailey | 5.26.2006 11:12 AM

Politics

Pop Out

The new school beverage policy won't make students noticeably thinner

Jacob Sullum | 5.10.2006 10:14 AM

Policy

Of Penises and Pesticides

Are synthetic chemicals responsible for male shortcomings?

Ronald Bailey | 5.5.2006 11:06 AM

Policy

Unfair Food

Obesity litigation twist

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Is Diabetes a Plague?

Eroding the distinction between public and private health

Ronald Bailey | 3.17.2006 10:46 AM

Politics

Government Kills Blacks With AIDS Virus

The real AIDS conspiracy revealed

Ronald Bailey | 3.10.2006 10:33 AM

Policy

Clean Air Calabasas

A smoke-free, family-friendly atmosphere of moralistic intolerance

Jacob Sullum | 3.8.2006 9:40 AM

Politics

Curb Your Enthusiasms

Moralists left and right want to control your carnal desires.

Radley Balko | 3.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Better Not Shop Around

Online cigarette sales.

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Cluster Busters

Fast food near schools.

Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The End of Pandemics

Bird flu could be the last super-plague.

Ronald Bailey | 11.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Safety, Efficacy, Morality

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Stem Cells Sell

There's no shortage of private funding for research

Ronald Bailey | 10.3.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Watching the Detectives

Epidemiologists are hot on the trail of the obesity pathogen

Jacob Sullum | 8.26.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Do We Really Need the Feds?

Funding stem-cell research without Uncle Sam

Ronald Bailey | 8.24.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

The Mental Health Crisis That Wasn't

How the trauma industry exploited 9/11.

Sally Satel and Christina Hoff Sommers | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Locking Up Life-Saving Drugs

Prescription laws make us sicker and poorer.

Kerry Howley | 8.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Fat Nannies Want to Bust Your Gut

The right obesity policy does not hinge on the latest numbers

Jacob Sullum | 7.15.2005 12:00 AM