Reviewing "The Myth of The Paperless Office" for the New Yorker in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell argued that if the computer had come first, and paper didn't exist, someone would have had to invent it.  Paper, it turns out, is a lot more useful than we typically appreciate.

Diplomats must move quietly but quickly to coordinate a regional response to Chávez’s death that will press for a genuine democratic transition, and not the succession Chavistas have in mind.

Two recent experimental drugs demonstrate that new scientific principles are faster becoming superior medicines, but bad government policies threaten to reverse this trend.

This ban is a political vote. It has nothing to do with science or health. It does not mean that BPA has been shown to be harmful.

Styrene's recent listing as "reasonably anticipated to be a human carcinogen" means something very different from how it is being framed by advocacy groups and the media—and this knowledge gap threatens to wreck legislative havoc across the country.

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.

Controls would take away the industry's incentive to develop new lifesaving medications and therapies.

We ought to make sure the Food and Drug Administrationis infused with the thinking and the resources to advance alongside the science it's charged with regulating.