Health & Medicine
Everything from the morality of eating cookies to the solvency of Medicare.
- Regulatory Lessons from Europe Grace-Marie Turner 10/02/2008
- Europeans have the right idea on how to regulate biologic drugs. American lawmakers should follow their lead.
- All the Milk in China Roger Bate 09/18/2008
- To stem the contamination crisis, Chinese officials should be giving handheld spectrometers to their key regulators.
- Innovators’ Dilemmas THE AMERICAN 09/09/2008
- Genentech’s Susan Desmond-Hellman on the FDA, regulations in Europe, and the inability to predict outcomes.
- From Bangkok to the Beltway Roger Bate and Karen Porter 08/26/2008
- The debate over patent breaking in Thailand comes to Capitol Hill.
- 'Seeding' Sales and Science John E. Calfee 08/25/2008
- Marketing-driven clinical trials intend to increase sales and profits—but also yield enormous benefits for patients.
- Fat Chance Sara Wexler 08/21/2008
- A ban on new fast-food restaurants in south Los Angeles doesn’t address the real causes of obesity.
- Bad Medicine Roger Bate 08/20/2008
- India is a center for drug counterfeiting—a deadly business that is spreading to the United States and Europe.
- Still a Long Way to Go Roger Bate 08/06/2008
- Afghanistan has made undeniable progress on public health. But will it be sustainable?
- What DO We Know About the Uninsured? Thomas P. Miller 07/30/2008
- Fact and fiction: what we know and what we don’t about Americans without health insurance.
- Good Drugs, Bad Drugs Roger Bate 07/18/2008
- The global health community must strengthen its commitment to protect patients from poor-quality medicines.