The Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling complicates the Department of Justice’s ongoing efforts to hold irresponsible prescribers criminally liable for fueling ...

We study patient perceptions on the socioeconomic consequences of the opioid epidemic.

Summer has come and gone, and one thing is clear: it was the summer of abortion.

Renewed calls for polypills come after studies showed its value in preventive medicine.

When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also ...

For those familiar with the business tactics of the pharmaceutical industry, that exuberant messaging has caused considerable heartburn and raised ...

Controlled, willful acts of resistance have been a powerful agent of change throughout history. We need it in medicine, now ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson defined the humanist origins of medicine. We praise his work, but we forget he fought against the ...

We built modern medicine on data. They provide certainty when facing the unknown. But the heart of medicine is uncertainty. ...

We should question why we look at medicine as a right. It is a legal concept that cannot address uncertainty ...

Medicine has become a vast system. As it grew, we lost empathy for patients and replaced it with a nexus ...

Rights force us to think individually. But medicine is a duty. It works only when we think of service to ...