Without profound changes in the scientific and regulatory environment, things will remain very tough for the agile disruptor -- relatively good news for established giants, presumably less good news for patients and for progress.

Governor Chris Christie discusses the reform issues which will serve as the foundation for his February budget address.

Unless pension accounting rules are updated, taxpayers in New Jersey and around the country are in for a shock when the pension bill comes due.

Congress must permit donors to accept third-party benefits for saving the life of a stranger, otherwise desperate patients and donors will continue to be reluctant co-conspirators in crime.

On the front page of this morning’s Metro section there was a story about Wal-Mart’s plan to open six stores in the District of Columbia. But in the box listing the locations there was an impossible address, “801 New Jersey Ave. NE”. 

Past problems exhibited by DREs suggest that these machines should be looked at with a skeptical eye.

We're about to enter a very long campaign in which where an apparently squeaky clean Mitt Romney is going to be demonized for his success and dragged through the gutter. Meanwhile, Obama took cash from a true denizen of the gutter.

For all the talk about the Affordable Care Act's mandate to purchase insurance, you might think that the mandate is the linchpin of the entire law. It isn't, at least from the standpoint of whether the insurance market will collapse without it.