Tag: Public Health

The FDA building is seen, right, and someone on a beach squirting sunscreen, left (AP News).

FDA’s sunscreen decision proves the agency is done burning patients’ wallets

Joe Barton · June 16, 2026 10:00 am

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. look on while vape products are on display in the foreground during a press conference in Bensonville, Ill., Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Paul Beaty)

Fairness and Justice

Tobacco policy should reflect the world as it is

Jeffrey A. Singer, Caleb O. Brown · June 11, 2026 6:00 am

Disposable flavored electronic cigarette devices are displayed for sale at a store in Pinecrest, Fla., June 26, 2023. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Trump FDA’s chance to crack down on Chinese black market harming our children

Richard Burr · June 8, 2026 8:00 am

recess playground

Pediatricians just declared recess a health necessity. States should treat it that way

Kelly McKenna · June 6, 2026 7:00 am

Michael Bloomberg announces his organization, Bloomberg Philanthropies, will give $600 million to the endowments of the four historically Black medical schools.

Michael Bloomberg’s war on vaping puts criminals over consumers

Martin Cullip · June 4, 2026 10:00 am

Protesters block ICE cars outside the Delaney Hall detention center during a protest against the transfer of detainees and federal immigration policies,, Friday, May 29, 2026, in Newark, N.J. (AP Photo/Andres Kudacki)

New Jersey attorney general sues operator of Delaney Hall detention center

Molly Parks · June 2, 2026 3:41 pm

taiwan world health organization

Stop excluding Taiwan from full World Health Organization participation

Chung-Liang Shih · June 2, 2026 6:00 am

Daylight saving clock being turned.

Time to move on from the daylight saving time obsession

William F. Shughart II · May 31, 2026 6:00 am

Man giving money to a doctor

Are Americans done with health insurance?

Alex Shuster · May 30, 2026 7:00 am

Dr. Marty Makary, commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, speaks in the Oval Office of the White House during an event with President Donald Trump, Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The FDA’s problem isn’t personnel — it’s enforcement

Lora Karch · May 29, 2026 11:00 am

Kratom capsules on a table.

Ban gas station heroin: Three headlines, one deadly drug

Kevin Sabet · May 28, 2026 10:00 am

Healthcare affordability and Economic Inflation Increase financial concept as expensive consumer spending as an upward arrow as rising prices of medicine health insurance and medical costs.

Faith, Freedom, and Self-Reliance

Democrats’ latest healthcare fantasy would mean longer waits

Sally Pipes · May 26, 2026 6:00 am