How an abortion pill ruling could threaten the FDA's regulatory authority
Two contradictory court rulings are raising questions not only about the future of the abortion pill mifepristone, but the federal government's authority to approve and...
How Anti-Vaccine Sentiment Took Hold in the United States
Faced with risking autism or measles, some parents thought the answer was obvious. Most had never seen measles, mumps or rubella because vaccines had nearly eliminated them....
How Behavioral Economics Can Produce Better Health Care
I’m a physician at the end of more than a decade of training. I’ve dissected cadavers in anatomy lab. I’ve pored over tomes on the physiology of disease. I’ve treated...
How does Michael Bennet intend to tackle surprise medical billing?
Colorado Senator and 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Michael Bennet was at the second annual HLTH conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday in a session designed around...
How Does Playing Football Affect Your Health?
It’s not a new question, but it’s a tricky one to study. Bapu explains why, and talks about how an N.F.L. labor dispute helped him get some answers. Find the full...
How Elizabeth Warren Plans To Pay For 'Medicare For All'
How do you think the math in this health care plan checks out? Mark Pauly: “Any projection by economists is all fuzzy math. As Yogi Berra might have said, ‘Fuzzy math...
How Ethical is America's Health Care System?
"From stem cell therapies to editing our genes, we've seen no shortage of medical breakthroughs in recent years. But these developments also raise ethical issues. That’s...
How Government Data Is Being Misused to Question COVID-19 Vaccine Safety
From Consumer Reports: Regulators have long been aware that the [vaccine] data can be misinterpreted. But the government makes it public in the interest of transparency....
How Oncologists Can Ethically Navigate the “Right-to-Try” Drug Law
Oncology is one field at the forefront of requests for unapproved drugs. An interdisciplinary team of bioethicists, oncologists, and lawyers from Penn Medicine and other...