Many armchair health policy watchers are fully aware of President Obama’s passage of the PPACA and its implications and continued struggles for…
The measles virus can be deadly: it can lead to deafness, pneumonia, encephalitis and miscarriage. By the year 2000, transmission of measles…
Osama bin Laden deserved to die. Or at least I think he did. (How much do we ordinary citizens really know?) I…
The basic argument is rather simple: that the health and nutrition of pregnant mothers and their children contribute to the strength and…
By Amanda Glassman – By Amanda Glassman – Our new visiting fellow Andy Sumner has drawn attention to the fact that most…
Living next to a nuclear power plant for a year is as risky as eating one banana. Living next to a nuclear…
This is Rob Stein in The Washington Post, via Robin Hanson: Although radiation escaping from a nuclear power plant catastrophe can increase…
Oxfam hasn’t let pesky little things like representative household surveys and impact evaluation results get in the way of their condemnation of…
This week, Dr. Seth Berkley was named Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance. Expectations are high as GAVI seeks to raise…