Biomedical Regulations & Ethics

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new test for coronavirus antibodies, the first for use in the ...

Leave it to science denialists to exploit a global crisis and tragedy to spread health hysteria. As the world struggles ...

British American Tobacco (BAT), which makes Lucky Strike and Benson & Hedges, says it is developing a vaccine for Covid-19, ...

Three otherwise healthy patients go to the emergency department with severe acute respiratory failure. Only one ventilator, required to sustain ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) [March 11] finally declared the coronavirus from China that rapidly spread across the world a pandemic ...

As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue 'the cure is worse than the ...

A collective of biohackers has begun circulating a document proposing a plan to create, test, and distribute a vaccine to battle SARS-CoV-2 ...

The novel coronavirus is not just "the flu," contrary to what you may have read on social media. There may ...

At a time when the nation is desperate for authoritative information about the coronavirus pandemic, the country's foremost agency for ...

The coronavirus pandemic has the whole world's attention. For now, there's no treatment and definitely no cure for COVID-19, the ...

Because cannabis is still considered illegal at the federal level, the responsibility of regulating cannabis and cannabis-derived products falls to ...

A senior scientist at a government biomedical research laboratory has been thwarted in his efforts to conduct experiments on possible ...

In the absence of real numbers, projections have filled the void, and it's hard to know which forecasts to trust ...

Not all cannabis is created equal; neither are the people that use it. As an epidemiologist, I have studied cannabis ...

The speed at which the price of genetic sequencing has fallen has been astonishing, from $50,000 a decade ago to roughly $600 today ...

New York attorney general Letitia James has ordered radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to stop claiming that InfoWars’ ...

Using gene drives to eradicate pests has a potential downside—DNA is constantly changing. That means gene drives have the potential ...

As genetic engineering reshapes intimate aspects of our lives, is the public on board? ...

During his State of the Union address in February, President Donald Trump reiterated a promise he had made a year earlier: By ...

The biosimilar category holds incredible promise, and the market for these products is on an upward trajectory. But it’s been ...

In this episode of Reset, host Arielle Duhaime-Ross talks with Jennifer Doudna about the promise and peril in CRISPR’s future, what’s ...

[O]n Fox News and social media, a dangerous conspiracy theory about the origin of the health crisis won’t die. There ...

The 1890s and 1990s were both characterized by unopposed amplification of the benefits of opioids, the transformation of physicians into ...

As we look toward the FDA of the 2020s that can achieve further progress in addressing urgent health threats and ...

While it’s now widely accepted that some forensic disciplines, like microscopic hair comparison, are junk science, evidence from similarly subjective ...

A scathing opinion piece in the BMJ is accusing the World Health Organization of conducting a pilot program in Africa ...

It has been 11 years since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved aripiprazole for children with autism. The ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 ...