Category: Health Care

We are in the middle of a medical revolution. It is entirely possible that within four to ten years, a person diagnosed with cancer will be able to

We are at the beginning of a medical revolution.  We can now genetically engineer pigs who are immune to deadly diseases and (as I wrote elsewhere) we can

Only five patients were cured of lymphoma months after a cancer cure became available. We’ve had a cure for Hepatitis C for years.  But only now is it

Andy Slavitt noted that we tend to have a major discussion about healthcare once every decade. Trouble is, that when we talk about it, we focus mostly on

Most retraining programs don’t work.  Individuals who need retraining are not consulted.  Retraining programs often focus on “trendy” industries like healthcare or green energy.  Local businesses are not

Read virtually any healthcare publication and you read about shortages. These mean providers of all types—doctors, clinics, midwives, pharmacists charge whatever they can get away with.  If you’re

The medical training we all need Whether people recover from mental illness or addiction depends, in large part, on how well they get along with their therapists. Further,

  Let’s admit—in how we fund substance use treatment—that we don’t know everything about our brains If we don’t know something, we should say so.  If we don’t,