Efforts to limit the commercial use of data on physician prescribing could have broad implications for regulatory programs that promote drug safety. At issue are a series of laws pursued by state legislators that would restrict access to information on the prescriptions written by individual doctors.

Last month, the Drug Enforcement Administration abruptly revoked the narcotics license held by the distributor Cardinal Health, preventing that firm from shipping prescription pain drugs to thousands of Florida pharmacies and hospitals. It's the latest tactic in the DEA's struggle to stem the illicit use of prescription painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin.

The medical community has undertaken a vigorous debate about attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). At one extreme are doctors, psychologists, and others who question whether clinicians are "medicalizing" childhood. At the other pole are doctors who eagerly prescribe medications for youngsters at the slightest hint of trouble. Nonetheless,...

Review of Does America Need a Foreign Policy? Toward a Diplomacy for the Twenty-first Century, by Henry Kissinger

On July 21, 1997,AEI and the American Cancer Societyreleased the results of a telephone survey of a representative sample of 200 practicing oncologists such as cancer specialists.

"Off-label" prescribing--that is, doctors prescribing drugs for purposes other than those expressly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA--is often useful although little is known of its extent. In the last several years, nearly every major pharmaceutical company has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle allegations of...

Portugal could avoid Greece's horrible fate if it were to draw the right lessons from the Greek experience.

The U.S. is in need of constructive suggestions as to how it might fashion a credible medium-term fiscal adjustment program that would allow the US to regain fiscal sustainability--as the Obama stimuli have provided little more than transient support to the US economic recovery.