I Am a Scorpion. It Is My Nature.
The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...
The fable, as it is told, involves a scorpion and a frog. The scorpion needs to cross a river, so he asks the frog to carry him on his back.&nbs...
nytimes.com | DUFF WILSON | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislatio...
Posted 11.11.2009 | Business
The Huffington Post recently learned that pharmaceutical industry insiders are expecting the health care reform legislation agreed to between the Whit...
Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 11.06.2009 | Living
I recently spoke with a Media Relations person at Merck regarding the efficacy and side effects of Gardasil, the new HPV vaccine. Here's what she had to say.
Anis Shivani | Posted 11.05.2009 | Books
Dr. Richard P. Bentall, professor and practitioner of clinical psychology in Britain, exposes the highly dubious nature of reigning presumptions about the causes and treatment of mental illness.
Marcy Winograd | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
In Congress, I will work to support affordable prices on biologics, so that victims of cancer, HIV, diabetes, Parkinsons, rheumatoid arthritis, and multiple sclerosis can afford the medicine they need to stay alive.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jenna Staul | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business
A lobbying war between two pharmaceutical companies vying to market a generic blood-thinner has prompted an inquiry by Sen. Chuck Grassley and Senate ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
As Speaker Nancy Pelosi sat down to put the finishing touches on the House health care bill Wednesday night, the California Democrat was stuck between...
Kathleen Reardon | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
As a professor of both business and preventive medicine for years, I'm appalled at how long it is taking for the H1N1 vaccine to reach at least those at high risk.
Lisa Conte | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
One of the collateral benefits of working in the global health arena is being reminded that disease doesn't exist in isolation.
Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Police in Spain have reportedly recovered over 160,000 fake Viagra pills, says Typically Spanish. The report is the latest in a line of international...
Huff TV | Posted 10.27.2009 | Media
Arianna appeared on MSNBC's Countdown With Keith Olbermann on Monday to discuss news that the Senate's health care bill would include an opt-out publi...
Lesley Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season when people begin storing necessities for the long, lean months ahead. Which is exactly the way you should be looking at it now.
Thailand drugs | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Little is real in Patpong, a glowing bazaar and sex district here in Bangkok. The Gucci is fake, the DVDs are pirated and the go-...
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.22.2009 | Living
We've got 80,000 chemicals in our everyday products here in the US, but the EPA has required testing on only 200 of them. Is it any wonder that the health of American children is under siege?
Lesley Stern | Posted 10.15.2009 | Comedy
It doesn't really matter why you need the money, all you know is that life as you know it will cease to exist if you don't get your hands on a big chunk of cash. Yesterday.
Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics
Money spent on abstinence education is a waste, except for those pandering to please a minority of citizens who do tend to vote consistently.
Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Last week, we announced that Maryland was entering into a new partnership with the State of California to collaborate on stem cell projects.
usnews.com | Rick Newman | Posted 09.25.2009 | Business
As Congress gets closer to final healthcare-reform legislation, the central question remains murky: Who will foot the bill? Figures contained in th...
Gail McGowan Mellor | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
An amendment offered by Senator Ben Nelson [D-FL] would reportedly lower the health care reform bill's cost by an additional $86 billion without reducing services.
Marcia Angell, M.D. | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
The Baucus bill makes it clear that the fix is in. We're now going to pour more money into a system that's already shown it can absorb whatever we put into it without providing anything like commensurate health care.
Mark Weisbrot | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
If we look at the United States from the point of view of its potential, it seems that we have a very limited form of democracy.
Robert Reich | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
The real political race for health care has just begun. Obama's speech should be seen as the starting gate of a two-month sprint between two competitors -- and they're not Democrats and Republicans.
Joanne Rendell | Posted 11.08.2009 | Media
The book industry needs to make the act of reading sexy and hip, enviable and sought-after.
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Comedy
So, let me get this straight: Pfizer is the drug company who'll lie to you, but Merck's the one that'll kill you?
Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics