Politics & Law

When public health collides with politics, the resulting reverberations can jeopardize entire populations. On a bleak morning this May, dairy...

In a historic moment steeped in symbolism and surrounded by palpable tension, the World Health Organization (WHO) adopted its first-ever...

Hope often comes with a disclaimer. That was the unspoken sentiment last week when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...

It wasn’t a red carpet moment, but it made headlines just the same. In a candid interview, pop icon Miley...

Few corners of the U.S. healthcare system are as opaque—or as fiercely contested—as the terrain of drug pricing. This spring,...

As memories of COVID-19's global chaos linger, the international community is grappling with an ambitious yet polarizing idea: a legally...

In the escalating battle over obesity treatment in the United States, the pharmaceutical industry has found an unexpected foe: local...

On April 15, a coalition of 17 national public health organizations, spearheaded by the American Public Health Advocacy Network (APHAN),...

On a quiet Tuesday afternoon in March, a cryptic internal email circulated through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), addressed...

In the wake of COVID-19 and the increasing politicization of public health, the U.S. Department of Justice has taken an...

Bad news travels fast. But good news? That takes time. And when it comes to the federal prosecution of physicians,...

When a federal agency changes the way money flows, the effects aren’t always immediate — but they’re often profound. In...