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Pharma R & D Spending is Down
And that’s probably bad news. Here is Megan McArdle, writing in The…
#Bio2011: After the Party is Over
For the thousands of life science industry representatives who attend the Biotechnology Industry…
Preventing Childhood Obesity
The Institute of Medicine last week issued a report, funded by the…
Long Waits Cost Canadians Millions
More than 825,000 Canadians were waiting for some type of treatment after…
Life Expectancy Inequality
This is from a Bloomberg column by Peter Orszag: This is from…
Why Not Let the Dead Pay for Medicare?
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones has a novel (if not original) idea.…
Great Moments in the History of Patient Power
If there was a moment when the modern-day relationship between physicians and…
AIDS Stages of Care – Three So Far; Will Number Four Come Soon?
It was just 30 years ago in June 1981 when the first…
1/3 Women Living with Chronic Health Conditions
According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, more than one-third of women report…
HHS Serves Up Prevention ‘Lite’
In the 1993 film Groundhog Day, Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman…