Yesterday and today I have been privileged to attend the BIL:PIL  "unconference" in San Diego, organized by  Jonathan Sheffi and ...

I am going out on a limb: I do not wish to offend anyone, particularly those for whom I have a great deal of respect. However, this is poten...

The consumerist takeover of the US psyche which began in the 1950s is complete: While we have been in our gluttonous torpor, our citizenship...

Another report quantifying the staggering waste in our US healthcare system, "the best in the world". This one is from Thomson Re...

Oh, my God! This is scary great on so many levels! (hat tip to @Nika7k)

It seems appropriate to repost my blog from July 29, 2009 , in view of this excellent article from Lisa Schwartz and Steve Woloshin from Da...

Absurd, you say? Not at all! That paragon of intellectual reasoning, Glenn Beck, has been conjecturing that the new call to volunteerism b...

An awful lot of time and energy is being spent on finding solutions to our broken healthcare system. This  is justified, of course, given th...

I think by now there is not a person in the US who cannot quote at least approximately how much we spend annually on healthcare. Fewer peopl...

In August we published a knol in PLoS Currents: Influenza, where, based on the data to date, we modeled hospitalization, respiratory failur...

Today I am celebrating President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize by posting a video that has nothing to do with healthcare. This is an amazing...

When people first find out that I was not born in the US (that's right, there go my presidential aspirations!), their question is about ...

This in the British Medical Journal from a Cochrane Center -- evidence for policies is shaky at best. BMJ  2006;333:912-915 (28 October),...

I am following with great interest all of the reports, both scientific and popular, on the reluctance to subject oneself to the H1N1 vaccine...

It is staggering to me how out of touch some influential people can be. Or is it just more smoke in mirrors? Take the Op-Ed piece in today...

Prostitution is legal in Las Vegas. Before antibiotics, people with tertiary (or neuro-) syphilis were considered to be pleasantly demented....

The H1N1 pandemic is bringing into focus not only the world's vulnerabilities vis a vis the spread of an infectious disease, but also ou...

(I apologize in advance to my drag queen friends for putting them in the same sentence as the conservative extremists -- I merely do this to...

The term evidence-based medicine has made it into our colloquial language over the last decade. David Sackett, considered one of the foundin...

Today the Institute of Medicine has released their " Guidance for Establishing Crisis Standards of Care for Use in Disaster Situations ...