The new Partners HealthCare conflict-of-interest policy does nothing address the timeless and persuasive conflict of interest between physician and provider.

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Responding to attacks by Congress and prominent academics that government and academic collaboration with pharmaceutical firms creates biases that can undermine the validity of otherwise useful research, the National Institutes of Health recently promulgated regulations...

The question of what enables some militaries to innovate effectively is of great interest to both scholars and commanders. However, the traditional models of military innovation fail to capture the complex innovation process.

On these quite intensive days for Government and the Parliament we deem it relevant and appropriate to reflect upon the issue of competition. This word has been frequently abused and idolized as the goal of any market process instead of being considered an instrument, a process regulated for the benefit...

It is a delicious irony that the opinions of these particular scribblers get special weight only because the federal government has given it to them.

We interrupt President Obama’s celebration of keeping a campaign promise to bring you news from Iraq, where a political crisis has been unfolding since just hours after Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta departed on Thursday.