The number of schools ranked highly in guides such as Barron's Profiles of American Colleges is increasing, without any evidence that these schools' instructional quality is also increasing. Applicants and their families should be wary of letting these rankings serve as the main criteria in their college decisions.

In a new book entitled “Financing Failure: A Century of Bailouts,” Vern McKinley provides the most detailed account yet of the government’s decision-making process during these momentous events.

Let’s play "Jeopardy." Round One: Science Literacy. Category: Evolution. For $500: Which is the largest demographic group to reject Darwin’s theory of evolution?”

According to Chris Mooney’s best selling new book, The Republican Brain, a follow up to his 2007 polemic The Republican War on Science, the answer is easy:...

America loves entrepreneurs--for good reason: they spark our imagination and remind us of the potential in each of us.

A century from now, observers may well identify the last months of 2011 as the start of higher education’s Great Disruption.

The new study provides no conclusive proof one way or the other of the effect of the Massachusetts reform on medical bankruptcies.

There is in fact a powerful reason to scrutinize the psychology field: we are in the midst of a mental illness epidemic. Office visits by children and adolescents treated for the condition jumped forty-fold from 1994 to 2003.

The core of medicine, and medical research, is and must be the patient, and the success of future drug development will depend upon our ability to keep patients in the front of our minds and at the center of our efforts.