PART 1 People are aware that the cost of health care in the US is going up faster than their income. Experts cite the health care inflation rate in a range about four times salary increases. This...

OUT AND ABOUT Recent conversations lately have centered around politics, the Post, and health care. Many are sick of this election already and wish it were over. Even political junkies bemoan the lamentable nature of the current contest....

                      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...

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...