As I am rushing out on a business trip Sunday evening, May 23, my twelve year old daughter, Tess, shoves a permission slip in front of me, "They're having a hair-dresser come into the school on Wednesday, Mom. I need permission for them to cut my hair."

She doesn't attend...

The post-earthquake horror in Haiti and the nation's desperate need for aid, as we learn from Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is not going away anytime soon. For me, the area of greatest concern is the Haitians' lack of access to clean drinking water. The repercussions go far...

"The moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped," Herbert Humphrey once said....

I'm feeling the need to speak out on behalf of some of the "irresponsible mother" judgments being made about Governor Palin. The NYTimes and others have suggested that perhaps a mother of 5 with two special need situations, a Down's syndrome child and a pregnant 17 year old, should not...

Earlier this week, the prestigious scientific journal, Nature, published an article entitled "Autism Study Panned by Critics". The article discussed the controversies surrounding a recently suspended clinical trial that proposed the use of chelating agents on children with autism.

The hypothesis in this trial is that on average and...

Abbott's recent action to withdraw its drug applications from the government review process in Thailand, including an important new HIV treatment, is another example of the multinational pharmaceutical companies' overreaching interpretation of intellectual property entitlement when it comes to the developing world. The Thai government is allowing the sale of...

An Indian court case is once again pitting western pharmaceutical companies against the lives and health of poor people in the developing world. "Quarter of a million people urge Novartis to drop case against India," reads a January 29, 2007 press release from Doctors Without Borders.

Inflammatory headlines and...