Despite severe risks and without a crime committed, a Minnesota judge authorized doctors to forcibly administer electroconvulsive therapy—while barring key witnesses from the hearing.
A new lawsuit alleges that, after failing to treat a placental abruption, medical staff conspired to have Brittany Watts arrested for her miscarriage.
Nick Flannery faces 12 years in prison for allegedly shaking his 2-month-old son. Child protective services are ignoring the other possible causes of his son's medical problem.
The Confessions of a Good Samaritan filmmaker explores the dysfunctional world of organ transplants.
One 2022 study found that 91 percent of women given fentanyl in their epidurals later tested positive for the drug.
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How restrictions on telemedicine are forcing doctors to choose between following the law and obeying their ethical obligations.
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Too often, it's government bureaucrats acting under the influence of special interests and against the wishes of doctors and patients, with sometimes tragic results.
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A new season brings six new stories about how the government is making Americans poorer and sicker.
A new lawsuit argues the state's requirement that doctors must be licensed in California to do remote consultations with patients there is unconstitutional.
With help from artificial intelligence, doctors can focus on patients.
Martin Kulldorff talks about his dismissal from Harvard Medical School, persisting college vaccine mandates, and surviving COVID-era censorship on the latest episode of Just Asking Questions.
Examining the mixed legacy of a fighter for patient autonomy.
The ongoing rollback of Medicaid is a rare step to reverse the “ratcheting growth” of our social safety net.
On September 5, the Keystone State is removing a big barrier to health care.
The next presidential election may be between the two men. Can't we do better?
Some doctors are itching to prescribe ecstasy again. How do we avoid the regulatory mistakes of the '80s?
Plus: Does Tom Cruise really do all of his own stunts?
The FDA decision is only a mini step toward freeing the pill.
Letting third parties pay our bills pushes prices higher and limits our options.
South Carolina will now only require a certificate of need for long-term care facilities, opening the health care market to smaller providers.
Even taking all the money from every billionaire wouldn't cover our coming bankruptcy.
More than 3,000 Americans die each year waiting for a bone marrow donor. Be the Match still refuses to compensate donors.
Plus: APA says social media not inherently harmful for kids, senators propose Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Agency, and more...
Why won’t the FDA allow women to buy a safer product without requiring a doctor’s visit that medical experts think is unnecessary?
Plus: The "Kids Online Safety Act" is back and as bad as ever, expect another interest rate hike today, and more…
It’s not the FDA’s job to tell doctors what to do.
Plus: Australia's failed news media bargaining code, two ways government created an Adderall shortage, and more...
Join Reason on YouTube at 1 p.m. Eastern for a discussion of mRNA vaccines and America's public health establishment with UCSF's Vinay Prasad.
Politicians' go-to fixes like child tax credits and federal paid leave are known for creating disincentives to work without much impact on fertility.
The CDC’s revised prescribing guidelines retain an anti-opioid bias and do nothing to reverse the harmful policies inspired by the 2016 version.
Over 88 percent of opioid overdose deaths now involve either heroin or fentanyl. Targeting prescriptions is not an efficient way to address mortality.
U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb says the law is unconstitutionally vague.
New mechanisms to threaten liberty are brought to bear on those who need the government's permission to do their jobs.
After losing access to opioids, many patients can’t live with constant pain.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
When the government runs the system, the right of citizens to end their own suffering can be twisted to serve the state.
"It was learning by doing," says one ambulance driver. "Most things that happen here are done by volunteers, not government officials."
Republican voters disagree.
One vaccination requires 100 pages of government paperwork to be processed before treatment.
The unanimous decision is a good first step for getting law enforcement out of prescription decisions.
Doctors Adriane Fugh-Berman and Jeffrey A. Singer debate the harms of prescription opioids.
Doctors can’t help people in pain because of restrictive opioid policy.
Top-notch health care, delivered fast and for low cost, really isn’t on the government's menu.
Plus: Panhandling is free speech, Biden may extend student loan repayment moratorium, Florida's wasteful defense of unconstitutional social media law, and more...
Protectionist policies are why the U.S. has few physicians and high prices.
According to a recent report published by the Reason Foundation, the Pioneer Insitute, and the Cicero Institute, Florida offers telehealth options that far exceed other states.
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