Health

A famed physicist warns of a market-driven genetic caste system. But the real danger is putting the government in charge of any technology.

The New England Journal of Medicine has it backwards: it's public, not private, money that skews research agendas.

People's complaints about the rising price of drugs are both mistaken (no, more government controls won't help) and justified (patents do indeed restrict competition)

The Gore and Bradley plans to "fix" health care will do nothing of the sort. Neither addresses the key problem of the current system.

The Clinton administration wasn't content with blowing up a pharmacy in the Sudan; now it wants to blow up hundreds of them on the web.

Should skydiving and other risky practices be permitted or banned? Tibor Machan argues that only market exchange on private property provides a coherent answer. 

The really terrifying prospect is having to live a life entirely "naturally." 

An attack on property rights that endangers liberty itself. (Article by Gregory Bresiger)

As the bureaucrats pursue their Draconian war on drugs, the Clinton administration is conspiring with the pharmaceutical industry to provide drugs at taxpayer expense. Under the guise of expanding Medicare—already a massive wealth transfer from young to old—prescription drugs will be included among the benefits the feds use to further rope senior citizens into the government orbit.

America's "War on Drugs" has become primarily a war on marijuana smokers. Federal data released this year reveals almost half of all drug arrests are for marijuana, and that approximately one in seven drug prisoners is now behind bars for marijuana offenses. Research reported by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) in June found that 59,300 Americans are sitting behind bars on marijuana charges.