Think the contraception decision was bad? Wait until bureaucrats start telling your insurer which cancer screenings to cover.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

Today there is much that we can do, without a costly military commitment, to help Libyans build a better future. This is leadership the US can afford. In the end, we will pay a higher price if we do nothing.

Jackpot justice refers to courts rewarding trial lawyers with outsized judgments unrelated to any actual damages, but arecent case in Minnesota gives the phrase a whole new meaning.

For at least four decades Colombia has been synonymous with the costly war against narcotics. But a different kind of drug war brought me to Bogotá - the fight against counterfeit and substandard pharmaceuticals.

Too bad we won't be able to sue the trial lawyers when the inevitable deaths happen.

Regardless of the intentions, clinical drug trials driven primarily by marketing yield enormous benefits for patients and practitioners.

New research indicates that many drugs bought by developed-world governments and NGOs fail crucial quality tests.