With the recent publication of its final rule, the federal government's Financial Stability Oversight Council is now in position to designate certain nonbank firms as "systemically important financial institutions" (SIFIs). There is probably no aspect of the Dodd-Frank Act that will have more damaging effects on competition in the U.S. financial system.

Worldwide attention by regulatory authorities on the contribution of genetic factors to drug response has increased. This is reflected by a developing regulatory framework that facilitates PGx integration into drug development such as Voluntary Exploratory Data Submissions in the USA and Japan, as well as the more recent, formal biomarker qualification by the regulators.

Elizabeth Warren is again at the center of a political controversy. Despite her insistence that she is part Cherokee, based upon “family lore” and her observation that some in her family had “high cheekbones like all the Indians do,” she has failed to produce any concrete evidence to substantiate her claim.

What’s important now is not to let what happened to Fishtown be ignored. For whatever reasons, the culture that used to characterize working-class America — indeed, that made working-class America the spine of America’s civic culture — has come apart. Recognizing that this has happened is the indispensable first step in figuring out what to do next.

The exchange of off-label information and the sharing of scientific evidence can sometimes have important public health benefits.

"Off-label" prescribing--that is, doctors prescribing drugs for purposes other than those expressly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA--is often useful although little is known of its extent. In the last several years, nearly every major pharmaceutical company has paid hundreds of millions of dollars to settle allegations of...

Rigid adherence to restrictions on the exchange of off-label informationleads to failureto recognize that the sharing of scientific evidence can have important public health benefits.

It was difficult for voters to see John Kerry as a uniter when they saw him as wavering and inconsistent. That was the image Karl Rove worked hard to create.