Consumers and doctors need to work more closely with pharmaceutical product developers.

By next year, about two-thirds of American physicians will be working as salaried employees of large groups and hospitals. This movement has been underway for years. Over the last decade, the number of independent physicians was falling by about 2% a year. But these trends are now accelerating. 

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

Is it ethical for doctors to prescribe placebos to patients?

In a single Washington Post column, Richard Cohen recycled at least half a dozen myths, fallacies, and half-truths of what sometimes passes for conventional wisdom in Washington when it comes to health care.

Kenneth P. Green responds to questions Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) asked him about climate change during recent testimony before the Senate Committee on Finance.

Forthirty years, the fight against malaria has been long on rhetoric and short on action. But for the first time since the 1960s, malaria is being fought effectively on a global scale.

The World Health Organization used to be effective in eradicating diseases, but pointless targeting and kowtowing to political correctness have harmed global health.