Reviewing "The Myth of The Paperless Office" for the New Yorker in 2002, Malcolm Gladwell argued that if the computer had come first, and paper didn't exist, someone would have had to invent it.  Paper, it turns out, is a lot more useful than we typically appreciate.

A study regarding Multiple Sclerosis patients' attitudes about the risks and benefits of drug therapy.

Scott Gottlieb reviews Eric Topol's book on how medical innovation will coalesce to change clinical practice and what the coming changes mean for today's policy debates.

The malaria community has done a great job over the past decade to combat the disease. But this may be about to change.

It is better to require oncologist members of reimbursement committees to ponder trade-offs than to allow those trade-offs to languish in obscurity.

All too often, industry seems to be viewed as the villain, yet industry is ultimately responsible for bringing to the market almost all new medical solutions.

It is said to be sports' doomsday scenario: a new generation of chemically enhanced or bioengineered athletes transformed from also-rans into world champions. We are entering an age often referred to as posthumanist, and sport is its leading edge. Elite athletes regularly remake their bodies in an effort to stretch...

Under what circumstances should compulsory licensing for drugs be used?