Tag: Policy/Ethics

A new special report published by The Hastings Center reveals some harms, but too many variables for "one-size-fits-all" answers. For ...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Human waste might be an unpleasant public health burden, but scientists ...

Where pharma spends, docs prescribe more gabapentin, a potential drug of abuse Pharmaceutical companies' payments to doctors may be influencing ...

Cancer research is a field that has been especially dependent on public funding. The National Cancer Institute (NCI), an independent ...

New funding, greater expertise and wider awareness in the system - and beyond -- are needed to embed work outcomes ...

New figures from Cancer Research UK show that people who are obese now outnumber people who smoke two to one ...

Search engines and social media organizations must do more to prevent the spread of inaccurate information on childhood vaccination, and ...

Findings from a new study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine and published in ...

Columbia University leads a national study to facilitate greater inclusion of ethnic minorities in genetic studiesCredit: Photo courtesy of National ...

Credit: Udo Schlög The Powering Past Coal Alliance, or PPCA, is a coalition of 30 countries and 22 cities and ...

PISCATAWAY, NJ - Each year, one in five U.S. adults -- an estimated 53 million people -- experience harm because ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (June 28, 2019) - In a new study published in JAMA Network Open, University of Kentucky researchers, in ...

Credit: McKenzie Johnson, University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Conflict over resource extraction is rampant in sub-Saharan Africa, with small-scale ...

Credit: ARPHA and Transpose All open-access, peer-reviewed academic titles of Pensoft's, as well as those using the white-label publishing solution ...