Prediction markets now offer the chance to wager on drug trials and regulatory approvals. The consequences could be negative ...

Michael Stein is chair and professor of Health Law, Policy, and Management at the Boston University School of Public Health. As a physician, his addictions research focuses on behavioral risk-taking ...

Timothy Callaghan is an associate professor of health policy and politics in the Department of Health Law, Policy, and ...

Far from being helpless against a veto, Congress holds significant legal and procedural power over the administration's ...

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. During the Sand Creek Fire, which has burned since the start ...

Following recent reports of a death at a secretive Siberian disease research lab, author Annie Jacobsen has become a sought-after media interview. Some interviewers are now casting Jacobsen's new ...

A landmark 24-country study reveals that a majority of people worldwide embraces both nuclear deterrence and disarmament, ...

Nunzio Marcelli narrowly avoided a tree root before pulling his car to a stop on a mountainside in central Italy where his sheep have grazed for more than 40 years. The 2,800-meter Majella massif is ...

A new nuclear policy is taking shape in secret, crafted by a small group of Pentagon officials, that will give President Donald Trump more ways to start a nuclear war. Little is known about the ...

On May 7, 1955, 25 young Japanese women arrived by airplane at Travis Airfield in California. They had flown there from Iwakuni Airbase in Tokyo a few days prior, with a layover in Honolulu. In ...

Nuclear films are both reflections of the zeitgeist in which they are made and shapers of it. They feed off of both popular and expert anxieties, while also helping to solidify the terms on which ...