Policy & Ethics

It's time to update our language, something that is routinely done to ensure accuracy and minimize antiquated, bigoted, and offensive terms. Think about some of the changes we've seen in the past few decades.

We are about to dedicate an entire ASM/ESCMID session to planning for the implementation of forthcoming pull incentives.  We do this because we all agree that without signifi

“Because the boundaries of the field are poorly defined, credentials often serve as a gatekeeping mechanism….” Leah Pierson,

"By  the  end  of  2020,  44  countries and seven U.S.

ProPublica has made uncovering the financial conflicts of interest between prescribers and pharmaceutical and medical device companies a bit of a cottage industry.

Three weeks ago, a California judge saw the light, and last week the Oklahoma high court followed suit.

Just when you think that maybe people are finally starting to figure out that the war on prescription opioid analgesics has instead been a war on pain patients and the doctors who treat them, a tidy package of misinformation

A few highlights:

A desire to stop the spread of COVID-19 misinformation has fueled increasingly intense efforts to restrict speech on social media platforms.

After recognizing SARS-COV-2 as a global threat last spring, the pandemic response quickly devolved into an ideological war.