It is quite telling that if President Obama had to construct a strategy for defeat, it would not differ from what he and his aides describe as America’s way forward.

Why did the PPACA not emphasize malpractice reform as a more important component of health care reform?

Insurance costs in Massachusetts are increasing.

When medical journal editors pursue a political agenda,public healthpaysthe price.

Claims of a medical malpractice crisis stem in large part from recent increases in malpractice insurance rates, with premiums for some individual doctors set in the hundreds of thousands of dollars a year. Most doctors, actuaries, and insurance officials attribute these costs to the lack of caps on liability awards....

To make essential drugs available to needy patients in poor countries, those countries need to take down their trade barriers.

In a new Lancet paper my colleagues and I point out that the World Bank has failed in its anti-malaria program. So what now?

The U.S. Senate has announced that it will be debating new legislation to reform America’s medical malpractice law in early May. Is the Senate likely to pass useful reforms? What types of reform should they consider? What is the appropriate role of the federal government in addressing the issue and...