The relationship between innovation and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has become a central topic of concern for a whole host of parties: academics, members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and several…
On May 21, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a decision in Hamm v. Smith, a case being heavily watched by both criminal justice and disability rights advocates for its potential impact on convictions for individuals sentenced to death involving a determination of…
In 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) banned a data broker called X-Mode Social from selling sensitive location data, charging that the company sold precise phone location data that could be used to track visits to reproductive…
The Trump administration’s goal of “Making America Healthy Again” is beginning to look more like “Making Americans Smokers Again.”
Earlier this year, three members of Congress introduced what they dubbed the Clean Water for All Life Act. Here’s how this law delivers “clean water for all:” Physicians must examine the bodies of all patients to…
For some, the just-completed 2025-2026 term of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) represents a series of “glancing blows” related to the protection and promotion of the public’s health.
In the state of Louisiana, 32.6 percent of the population identify as Black, while 8.3 percent of the state’s physicians identify as Black. Across the nation, 13.7 percent of the population identify as Black, while 5.7 percent of physicians identify as Black.
On May 22, 2026, the World Health Assembly formally acknowledged Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), consolidating a process that has now placed the country among the very few states to abandon the principal institution…
Iowa is the only state bounded on either side by major rivers, fitting borders for a state whose prosperity is defined by water. The state has long been one of the nation’s most agriculturally productive.
For those of us who work in the psychedelic field, the April 18 press conference announcing several actions to speed up psychedelic research was a watershed moment.
