The health news for the New York City is good — very good, in fact. And it must be especially gratifying to Bloomberg, given his longstanding personal commitment to public health. But it isn’t clear that the official narrative of New York’s health progress actually conforms with the health story for New York over the last decade.

Do not fear overhyped, scary environmentalist reports. Air quality is improving.

Citizens of the former superpower are dying in catastrophic numbers. For very little, we could prove they have not been forgotten.

The Environmental Protection Agency spends scarce taxpayer money to endlessly dredge through databases in search of ever lower, ever more obscure health impacts to justify expanded regulation and EPA intrusion into the economy.

Whenever the Thai government defiesforeign drug patents and creates its own cheap copies of drugs, it endangers the patients who need the drugs and undermines drug discovery.

There are good reasons for the European Union to worry about the health of its pharmaceutical firms, but fortunately there are things it can improve.

Russia has little chance of narrowing the income gap with theEuropean Unionunless it also closes the yawning health gap that separates Russians from the rest of Europe.

Help for medicinal innovation in Thailand is coming from an unlikely source.