The following paper was published two weeks ago in the healthcare policy journal Health Affairs (abstract and author affiliations provided...

I went for my routine physical last week, not that I believe in routine physicals. But I bit the bullet and went, largely to appease those a...

Well, unpopular opinions are just that -- unpopular. But you have to start somewhere. I wrote the paper posted below over the last couple of...

So, you noticed that on several occasions I said that health does not generate revenue, disease does. Let us examine this statement a little...

I am reading a very thought-provoking book right now: The Secret History of the War on Cancer  by Devra Davis. In this book Dr. Davis lays o...

When I was growing up in the 1970s (yes, in fact it was last century, thank you very much), news was different. And I do not think that this...

We are a society obsessed. Everywhere we go, there are soaps and detergents with antibacterial agents in them. Some of our food is irradiate...

Let's face it: denominators keep numbers (and people reporting them) honest. Imagine if I said that there were 3,352 cases of a never-be...

Here I am sitting at my computer trying to write a review on MRSA in the intensive care unit, and all of a sudden I cannot write -- everythi...

The Washington post today reports that several stake holders in our healthcare system (the AMA, PhRMA, AHA, AHIP, to name a few) are meeting...

Remember how your mom made you choose between a cookie and a piece of chocolate for dessert? Remember how shocked you were the first time it...

Well, I have been contemplating starting a blog for some time, but was not sure how to approach it. Being a health services researcher, I ob...