The U.S. Preventive Task Force's recent recommendation that women should not begin routine mammograms until age fifty has sparked controversy.

China has grown at a more rapid tempo than any country in history and its demographic outlook has changed dramatically.

Scott Gottlieb, M.D., reviews Michael Willrich's "Pox:An American History". The book chronicles the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service through governmental intrusion during the historical epidemic of 1898-1903.

Instead of centralizing the health insurance system, smaller reforms, such as the implementation of an "entrepreneurs" health coverage policy, would improve efficiency in the health care sector.

Japanese prime minister Yukio Hatoyama's credibility in Washington is shot, and he has only himself to blame.

Sympathy runs dry for Condoleezza Rice"s fiasco-laden State Department, butit hasthe opportunity to reverse its slide into interagency irrelevancy.

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke has become the perfect scapegoat.

It is almost certain that so long as he holds office, the president cannot be reached by criminal law, although no Federal court has ever ruled on the question.