In September, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration held a public meeting to discuss FDA’s effort to modernize standards of identity as part the agency's Nutrition Innovation Strategy. In 2018, FDA…

Opposing views on e-cigarettes, witnesses interrupting members of Congress and even a wink. A hearing Tuesday on the epidemic of respiratory injuries linked to vaping was one unusual show. Since the…

And there is no question it worked. When President Bill Clinton and Senator John Kerry sent a kill-shot into nuclear science in America in the early 1990s, Democrats cheered.  Making all nuclear…

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/10030/title/What-P... Decades on, bacterium’s discovery feted as paragon of basic science MADISON, Wis. – Over time, the esoteric and sometimes…

If something is free, do you use it more? It seems so, in New York City ambulance usage for minor injuries (abrasions, minor burns, muscle sprains) rose by 37 percent after the Affordable Care Act…

The never-enacted Obama Clean Power Plan was scuttled by the Supreme Court in 2016 and its defense later abandoned by the Trump administration. Though it is fashionable to claim that means…

Comments opened on the recent EPA nominations to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) established under section 25(d) of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), since…

Decades ago, Velveeta had to be labeled “Pasteurized Prepared Cheese Product" so that customers could have truth in labeling. It was not "cheese", said the government.  The U.S. Federal Trade…

A paper from academics says that the final goal of the Affordable Care Act - Medicare For All - won't lead to more hospital stays. This is in defiance of data during ACA, where it led to higher costs…

Economic losses from Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and 76 wildfires in nine Western states could total nearly $300 billion in damage and if you believe those fires would not have happened without…