The Pilgrims did not have to worry about visa problems. The first Continental Congress did not fret about their hotel key-cards malfunctioning. Franklin never wrote about electricity bills. Americans in the Civil War at least did not...

                      Rick Santorum’s billionaire bank-roller Foster Friess (That’s really his name, I know it sounds like an ice cream drive-in) got his 15 minutes of fame this...

After posting yesterday, I caught up with a similar article on health care costs and reform in the January 4, 2012 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association authored by Ezekiel Emmanuel. M.D.,PhD. Dr. Emmanuel...

A colleague of mine at LancNews http://newslanc.com/ brought to my attention a very well-written piece by Dr. Arnold Relman, the former editor-in-chief of the New England, one of the most prestigious medical periodicals in the United States. The...

In the 1997, the Federal Drug Administration sanctioned direct-to-consumer promotion of drugs on broadcast media for the first time. They did not require that these advertisements balance risks with benefits. Risks could be fired off in machine...