US: Investigate Ethics in China Drug Study
(New York) – A study about heroin cravings partially funded by a US agency and conducted in two Chinese drug rehabilitation centers raises serio...
(New York) – A study about heroin cravings partially funded by a US agency and conducted in two Chinese drug rehabilitation centers raises serio...
Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 04.09.2012
We need a National Alzheimer's Plan that reflects the psychosocial/mental health needs of Americans with dementia and their families, and that creates opportunities for them to have a vastly improved quality of life.
Michael Hodin | Posted 05.29.2012
As the World Bank lays out its plans to stimulate growth in the coming years, Dr. Kim may be exactly what the doctor ordered -− a health-field expert who can prioritize healthy aging.
David Holtgrave | Posted 05.21.2012
The next four months are a critical time for the Administration, the International AIDS Conference, and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. We might ask a familiar question: We know what to do, but will we do it?
David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.07.2012
I won't speak for my friends and colleagues in public health, although I suspect they feel the same; I'll just speak for myself. I am nobody's nanny. But as you play with the military-industrial establishment with your health on the line, I don't mind being a referee.
David Catania | Posted 12.24.2011
The District's continuing fight against the HIV/AIDS epidemic remains a central pillar of our public health infrastructure, and with good reason.
Rajiv Narayan | Posted 12.20.2011
Where the farm bill allocates resources to funding food stamps, it also incentivizes the purchase of unhealthy foods.
Robert Stavins | Posted 10.11.2011
No matter how one feels about the wisdom of Standard & Poor's downgrading of long-term U.S. debt, the issue of greater concern should be their assessment of the state of the U.S. body politic.
Stephen M. Davidson | Posted 08.14.2011
Democrats have been slow to come up with their own Medicare reform plan. As they ponder what to do in this contentious atmosphere, some facts and analysis can't hurt.
Ethan Rome | Posted 06.04.2011
In these tough times when we need shared sacrifice, smart government and job creation, the Republican plan to cut Medicaid accomplishes none of these things. It only makes matters worse.
Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 05.25.2011
When a study is done, what we want to find out is whether a medical or surgical treatment actually benefits a patient, that is, does the patient live longer or better.
Larry McNeely | Posted 05.25.2011
Yesterday, the Senate got a small glimpse of what constructive bipartisan cooperation could look like. And surprisingly, it happened in health-care policy.
Dr. Peter Klatsky | Posted 05.25.2011
Today you have a vote that can save a life, perhaps hundreds. Just ask a patient of ours who recently confided that her life was saved by a new healt...
David Mixner | Posted 05.25.2011
Those of us who lived through the worst of the HIV/AIDS epidemic from the early 1980s through the mid-1990s have a very special spot in our heart for ...
Stephen J. Downs | Posted 05.25.2011
This morning my colleague, Dr. Carol Diamond of the Markle Foundation, appeared on the Today Show to talk about an initiative called "blue button." ...
Jake Blumgart | Posted 05.25.2011
All employees should be able to take time off for their illnesses, not just those lucky enough to have the right job. Experience shows that we can make our economy friendlier to beleaguered workers without harming their employers.
DJ Jaffe | Posted 11.17.2011
According to Amenoma Hartocollis of the New York Times, New York City tightened their rules for monitoring discharged patients with tuberculosis becau...
Dr. Dennis Gottfried | Posted 05.25.2011
As society initiates its battle to end the obesity epidemic, much can be learned from the similar battle waged against cigarette smoking over the past several decades.
Ford Vox | Posted 05.25.2011
Factors other than our patients influence the care physicians provide. In the case of American orthopedic surgery, Factor X is the medical device industry.
Suzan Song | Posted 11.17.2011
Too often those that suffer from mental illness are marginalized and become victims of stigma. But ignoring or neglecting this population only hurts society as a whole.
Larry_Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011
Taking action before an incident occurs has saved hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars related to tobacco use, lead poisoning, and car crashes. And like smoking or highway deaths, the oil spill was both predictable and preventable.
Dr. Orin Levine | Posted 05.25.2011
Procurement challenges and differences on pricing policies continue to vex our efforts to get vaccines to the world's neediest children.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 05.25.2011
There are some truths about women's health that may now seem self-evident, but perhaps would not be so obvious if it were not for the ideas espoused, starting so long ago, by "Our Bodies, Ourselves."
D. Brad Wright | Posted 05.25.2011
Solomon really nailed it on the head when he wrote "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun." One of the "old" things under the sun, is health care costs.
Mari Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011
Fast, cheap and easy is not a porn film; it's the new American diet.
Human Rights Watch | Posted 04.19.2012