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.

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Two events which took place in the mid-1950s have exerted since then an extraordinary influence over health care. The first event was the development of an effective vaccine against polio, a scientific triumph over a fearsome communicable...

Few controversies in modern medicine are as emotionally charged as the one over the causes of autism and its possible cures. Journalists, celebrities, and a few medical researchers have claimed that some long-used vaccines cause autism and that various substances and procedures can cure it.

Wading into this controversy is...

Global health depends as much on the participation of people in impoverished countries as it does on philanthropic Western donors.

Fixating on "market failure" rhetoricforgets theimportant reasonthe poorest lack access to drugs: the policies that encourage poverty promoted bytheir governments.

Alzheimer's is a disease without a cure; the number of people afflicted continues to rise, and it is time for bureaucrats in Washington to support brain science research in the hope of finding a cure.

We must make a concerted effort today to increase our capacity for timely development of safe, effective and innovative flu vaccines.

The United States' insufficient supply of H1N1 vaccines to inoculate our population demonstrates how poorly prepared we are to confront a pandemic.