Successfully translating scientific discoveries requires a sense of urgency, which some disease foundations seem to have, and many big pharmas appear to need. Patients waiting expectantly for medical research to produce important new cures are finding bad news almost everywhere they turn.

The kind of design thinking championed by Steve Jobs--human-centered, iterative, and practical--can fix more than just our gadgets.

The inexorable rise of healthcare costs has created not only a crisis waiting to happen, but also an urgent need for innovation--exactly the sort of thing for which Silicon Valley is justly famous. So where's Silicon Valley when we need it?

The health policy debate in the 2008 presidential campaign year needs to move beyond the well-rehearsed pattern of the past, which focused primarily on how to expand insurance coverage to more Americans and find (or hide) the amount of money needed to pay for more health care services. Expanding the...

Circumstances in Russia point to the gradual erosion of legitimacy and political institutions--or a sudden collapse of the regime, like the recent Egyptian antiauthoritarian revolt.

Many current criticisms over the George W.Bush administration environmental policyare founded on data from the Reagan administration in the 1980s.

Russia's pension privatization epitomizes both the enormous progress achieved over the past decade and the equally huge obstacles still ahead on the road to "civilized" liberal capitalism.