Health & Medicine

Everything You Wanted to Know About Medicare But Were Too Confused to Ask Joseph Antos 03/27/2007

It’s America’s largest and most endangered health insurance program. Changes that give consumers more say—like the new Part D drug benefit—are helpful, but we’ll have to make tough trade-offs in the years ahead.

What’s Done with This Fund? Roger Bate and Kathryn Boateng 03/26/2007

The Global Fund will only be as effective as its procurement process allows.

Second Thoughts on Breasts Amity Shlaes 03/21/2007

The FDA banned silicone implants in 1992 despite a lack of evidence that they were unsafe. Now, the ban has been reversed Where’s the apology? asks Amity Shlaes. Where do the shareholders go to get their equity back?

Should the Government Make Sex Safer for Women? Yael Levin 03/09/2007

Mandating the new HPV vaccine would be overkill—we just need to make sure everyone is free to choose it.

Girl Scouts Want You To Die Katherine Mangu-Ward 02/26/2007

My local liquor store is selling Girl Scout cookies, and last week I chose Thin Mints over gin, thinking myself quite virtuous. Little did I know…

Getting a Handle on Public Health Paul Howard 02/16/2007

Steven Johnson’s new book shows how we beat cholera, and what we can learn from the experience.

The Truth about the Drug Ads John E. Calfee 02/02/2007

Many people love to hate DTCA, but research suggests the ads do more good than harm.

An Easy Cell Michael Fragoso 01/29/2007

New and uncontroversial methods for gathering stem cells could jump-start a nascent industry.

A Market in Morals Kerry Howley 01/26/2007

Thanks to the global diversity of bioethics rules, would-be mothers have a world of options.

Good Medicine for the Tax Code Joseph Antos 01/25/2007

The President’s health care proposal would put patients in charge of buying their health care, and eliminate today’s perverse incentive to overspend.