Pharma Be Aware: The Next Killers
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer and hypertension are increasing worldwide, especially in developing countries. Though some activists (such as an international team of...
View ArticleChinese Medicine Infiltrates Scientific Publishing
A leading scientific publisher, BioMed Central, publishes a journal called "Chinese Medicine" that is little more than a front for pseudoscientific claims and quackery. The otherwise reputable...
View ArticleBreakthrough Heart Valves: How Will Patients Decide?
A new heart valve leaves patients with big quandaries when it comes to picking a treatment.
View ArticleMedicare's ACO Regs Recall MAD's Squamish Rulebook
After sitting through a 90-minute webinar by a Washington law firm on Medicare’s new draft regulations for Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), I realized why they sounded familiar. In their...
View ArticleWhy Medical Schools Should Not Teach Integrative Medicine
Bogus medical treatments going under the name "integrative medicine" are making their way into leading medical schools.
View Article"Three Cups of Tea": Doing Good is Hard Work
The recent Greg Mortensen and "Three Cups of Tea" saga leaves a major lesson in its wake: doing well is hard work. All too often, not-for-profit leaders have their hearts in the work, but it all falls...
View ArticleWhy Is Abbott's TriLipix Defying Gravity?
Nobody knows whether Abbott's heart drugs actually improve the health of heart patients.
View ArticleBin Laden, Patriotism And Our Health Care Crisis
In the near-decade since the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the "War on Terror" has cost the United States about $1.3 trillion, according to the National Center on Defense Information. By comparison,...
View ArticleMeasles Invades The U.S. As The Anti-Vaccine Movement Scores Again
Measles is spreading in Utah, thanks to an unvaccinated middle school student who brought it back from Poland. We should tell unvaccinated citizens that they will have to be tested for diseases if they...
View ArticleAfrican Multinational Corporations are Catching Up
Africa is finally creating its own multinational corporations.
View ArticleMassachusetts AG Recommends Healthcare Price Controls
How can health care costs be controlled in Massachusetts? According to a June 22 report from the state’s Office of the Attorney General (OAG), the answer includes temporary controls on prices...
View ArticleAn Ounce of Prevention
Children in Malawi (Matthew Feldman) In our technology-laden world, it should come as no surprise that development wonks are constantly chasing the next “solution” to poverty. Though there are a few...
View ArticleGrowing Rwanda Out of Poverty
Steve Jones at his farm in Rwamagana, Rwanda. (Photo credit: Mary Robbins) For the last few years, development wonks and international organizations have had the “Green Revolution for Africa” on their...
View ArticleWhat If Doctors Could Finally Prescribe Behavior Change?
This guest article is by Sean Duffy, CEO and Co-Founder, Omada Health Three out of four Americans will die of a disease that could be avoided—if only they could re-route their unhealthy habits. A new...
View ArticleHow Silicon Valley Could Revolutionize Salinas Valley, America's Farming Capital
According to Norman Borlaug, in the next 40 years, farmers will have to grow as much food as they have in the last 10,000 years -- combined. Technology can make that achievable.
View ArticleWhy This 'Big Oil' CEO Believes In Applying A Price To Carbon
This guest article is by Ben van Beurden, CEO of Royal Dutch Shell Cutting greenhouse gas emissions while keeping the lights on for a growing global population is a huge but critical challenge. We have...
View ArticleMeet A Data Scientist Who's Helped Revolutionize Agriculture
Stanford professor David Lobell's pioneering work has opened eyes on the risks to food security from global warming, and now he's harnessing data to show how the agriculture sector can adapt.
View ArticleWhy Bankers, Financial Analysts And Doctors Need To Start Working Together
By the time the condominium association notified Renee Packel that she and her husband were months late paying their fee, Mr. Packel, who was in charge of the bill paying, had also made several...
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