There is a second world of drug research, a world in which patents do not exist and for-profit research is permanently moribund. Its history should stop "reformers" in their tracks.

The Beeb once had (and perhaps still has) a great segment called “without comment” in which clips of incredible things are played.  Here’s your print version of our own “without comment” today, from yesterday’s jaw-dropping daily State Department presser discussing the suspension of food aid to North Korea.

An eminent anthropologist prescribes a set of nine behavioral "vitamins" based on what we needed to prosper as a species in our native environment, which he identified as East Africa, out of which our ancestors apparently spread some 100,000 years ago.

Since there is no demand for dangerous medicine, international action has a far greater chance of success than the war against narcotics.

This Joint Center discussion will offer new perspectives on international antitrust regulations at a time when the European Commission's competition policy is facing tough criticism, and when private cases against international cartels stand before U.S. courts. Antitrust experts Damien Neven and Caglar Ozden will examine potential political economy biases in...

There is practically no reliable scientific support for using the soda tax to fight obesity. The tax is an impulse to generate new revenue and not a creative public health measure.

Studies of the impact of the economy on presidential elections have found that bad economies tend to hurt incumbent parties.

Human bodies vary but they are not shaped and do not function at random. Through genomic research, we could find the source of this predetermined physicality and the force that shapes this non-randomness. Human behavior varies culturally but it too is not random. Can we develop a profile of...