Blanket ban on treating transsexuals is ruled "unlawful"

Drugs: blanket ban or harm reduction?

As the commercial success of electronic cigarettes offers the opportunity to study harm reduction by replacement therapy, the UK government steers in the opposite direction and plans to expand the 'war on drugs' with a blanket ban on all psychoactive substances. Michael Gross reports.

Circumcision Is Unethical and Unlawful.

The foreskin is a complex structure that protects and moisturizes the head of the penis, and, being the most densely innervated and sensitive portion of the penis, is essential to providing the complete sexual response. Circumcision-the removal of this structure-is non-therapeutic, painful, irreversible surgery that also risks serious physical injury, psychological sequelae, and death. Men rare...

Blanket ban on tobacco funded research risks missing out on good quality studies.

It is easy to understand the BMJ’s policy on refusing research funded by the tobacco industry, given the harm that the industry does. However, a blanket policy of rejecting all research from the tobacco industry makes me uncomfortable. This policy is based on nothing other than an ad hominem fallacy. Much research funded by the tobacco industry is flawed and unworthy of publication in a prestig...

To ban or not to ban? - that is the question.

How much "spread" in AWP pricing is unlawful?

A colorful ruling by federal U.S. District Court Judge Patti B. Saris (Boston) dated June 21, 2007, proclaimed that some pharmaceutical manufacturers had been “unscrupulously taking advantage of the flawed AWP (average wholesale price) system . . . by establishing secret mega-spreads far beyond the standard industry markup,” describing this behavior as “unethical and oppressive.” The case invol...