I am certain that it was Jack’s selflessness—his orientation to others and ability to conceive of how much better things could be—that accounted for the passion he brought to his research and writing and everyday conversation.

Massachusetts, who overhauled their health-care in 2006 along the same terms as Obama's Affordable Care Act, is now showing the failures we can expect to see with the national model.

Recent calls for tighter clinical requirements for medical devices should themselves be recalled. Such requirements would not greatly increase public safety; they would hamper innovation.

The campaign against the most valuable medical technologies ever invented is based on junk science.

Left ventricular assist devices, or "heart pumps," are proving to be the best available option for patients with advanced heart failure, and the technology has huge potential for improvement.

The Avandia issue has shed light on important issues in FDA regulation, including politics and regulating the practice of medicine.

There is practically no reliable scientific support for using the soda tax to fight obesity. The tax is an impulse to generate new revenue and not a creative public health measure.