Of the many factors that make improving the health system difficult, few challenges are greater than the misty-eyed recollection – often from genuinely distinguished practitioners – of how great things used to be.  Doctors were highly regarded authority figures, pure and beloved, while patients were meek and grateful in the presence of such brilliance and expertise.

The author discusses the impending war with Iraq.

This book discusses President Bill Clinton's approach to health care industry reform.

Knowing where all our ingredients come from is the first step toward improving drug quality.

Not all professors are radicals and not all students are timewasters.Many still seek knowledge, if not wisdom, but gap between the ideal and the reality has seemingly never been greater.

Recent news reports about the compensation of New York Stock Exchange chairman Richard Grasso have focused unusual attention on questions of governance and the absence of market discipline at the NYSE. Because the NYSE is owned and operated by its members and enjoys special government benefits that limit competition...

The enormous costs and burdens of outmoded facilities arrangements represent an immense opportunity for the nation's school systems.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...