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.

Knowing where all our ingredients come from is the first step toward improving drug quality.

Can the shelf-life of fixed dose combination artemether-lumefantrine be extended?

The term "political science" used to mean public policy studied not just as opinion but based on empirical, documentable evidence. Today it's come to mean something darker--the subversion of science in the hands of ideologues committed to manipulating public policy to their end. This new, and disheartening use of the...

With fakes of the cancer drug Avastin popping up in U.S. clinics in the past few months, patients are naturally worried about whether their medicines are safe.  Considering eighty percent of the ingredients in U.S. medicines come from overseas – mostly from China and India because their products are generally...

John Calfee reviews Marcia Angell's book The Truth about the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do about It.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

DDT was the most important life-saving chemical of the past century and, until a better chemical comes along, it will be one of the most important of the first few decades of this century too.