Facebook Inc. took a momentous action last week. And I don’t mean its announced intention to sell shares for $28 to $35 in an initial public offering later this month.

So men and women who faced death at Fallujah or Kandahar or Desert Storm are now to face death panels at home? That’s the upshot of the administration’s plans for military health care.

New data show that health spending over the past several years has been normalizing toward the rate of general inflation, rather than growing higher and higher, as had been the case almost continuously since the 1970s.

A neuroscientist recalls how a host of substances took over his life and how, at last, he learned to impose new patterns of thought and behavior.

In October Term 2006, the Supreme Court showed an increased willingness to review and decide business litigation cases that the Rehnquist Court had largely avoided. The justices made important decisions in the areas of securities law, antitrust, patent law, civil procedure, employment law, and punitive damages. In the upcoming October...

A vigorous entrepreneurial spirit was apparent at a translational research innovation symposium at Duke University--a determination to do something outside the usual academic practice.

At the recent GOP debate in Iowa, Gingrich defended his pro-life record, declaring, “I believe that life begins at conception” and stating that embryos at fertility clinics “should be considered life because by definition they’ve been conceived. I am against any kind of experimentation on embryos. And I think my position on life has been very clear and very consistent.” No, it hasn't.

The theory that with better health care we would actually save money may sound great, but it would require a definite increase in government.