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HEALTHCARE REFORM:

Aging baby boomers threaten to overwhelm the healthcare system.

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  • Living in Stereo    
    A deaf man finds out why hearing with two ears is better than one.
    April 30, 2008 - MICHAEL CHOROST - Health - Patients
  • Enough to Make You Sick
    Changing economy leaves nearly three in ten people with problems paying medical bills.
    April 30, 2008 - Health - Patients
  • A 20/20 Vision to 2020
    Podcast: May 2008
    April 28, 2008 - Health - Innovation
  • Brain Food    
    Vitamins may be good not just for your body, but for your behavior as well.
    April 16, 2008 - IRENE CASELLI - Health - Public Health
  • Dead to the World
    Whether living in rich or poor countries, heart disease is the leading cause of death.
    April 10, 2008 - Health - Global Health
  • Safety Net    
    The web is increasingly being used to exchange information about the latest outbreaks and even intervene in public health emergencies.
    April 02, 2008 - MADELINE DREXLER - Health - Global Health
  • Preparing for Doomsday    
    A startup may have found a radical new way to effectively inoculate against bird flu.
    March 26, 2008 - FRANK BROWNING - Health - Vaccines
  • STDs Gone Wild
    CDC Study finds more than a quarter of teenage girls have a sexually transmitted disease.
    March 13, 2008 - Health - Public Health
  • A Waiting Game
    A growing imbalance between supply and demand has extended the wait for some organs, but waiting times fall for hearts and lungs.
    March 07, 2008 - Health - Public Health
  • Breathing Easy    
    Doctors find that age shouldn't be a barrier to successful transplants of lungs and other organs.
    February 25, 2008 - ANNE BURKE - Health - Public Health
  • America's Healthcare Dilemma    
    A letter from the publishers
    February 21, 2008 - DAVID GOLLAHER AND G. STEVEN BURRILL - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Pumped About Polymers
    Symphony Medical thinks it can tackle large cardiology markets with its seemingly simple approach to alter troubled hearts.
    February 15, 2008 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Medical Devices
  • Pocket Protector
    A wearable sensor system could help shed light on what really triggers asthma attacks.
    February 13, 2008 - ERIC WAHLGREN - Health - Medical Devices
  • When the Doctor Becomes the Patient    
    As the founding director of the ALS Treatment and Research Center at UCSF, I knew something about what to expect when I was diagnosed with the fatal neurodegenerative disease.
    February 08, 2008 - RICHARD K. OLNEY - Health - Patients
  • Sound Medicine
    Report finds nearly 1,500 commonly used drugs are involved in errors linked to confusion caused by similar sounding or similar looking names.
    January 30, 2008 - Health - Public Health
  • A Consumer Disconnect
    Prescription drugs make up just 10 percent of the overall cost of healthcare in the United States, but when asked, most consumers think the figure is between 40 and 79 percent.
    January 23, 2008 - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Nurse, Get This Patient Some Arugula    
    HMO Kaiser Permanente is helping set up farmers markets at its medical centers across the nation on the principle that good food leads to good health.
    January 14, 2008 - TERESA MOORE - Health - Wellness
  • A Tangled Web
    A think tank's study finds misleading medical information is rife on the Internet and could pose a threat to public health.
    January 09, 2008 - PETER PITTS - Health - Public Health
  • A Healthcare System that Doesn't Value Health    
    A letter from the publishers
    January 08, 2008 - DAVID GOLLAHER AND G. STEVEN BURRILL - Health - Wellness
  • Fix-Me-Itis    
    A letter from the editor
    January 03, 2008 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Wellness
  • PHOTO ESSAY: Nurse, Get This Patient Some Arugula
    December 20, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Wellness
  • Judgment Day    
    A U.S. center that would compare the effectiveness of medical treatments may soon be in the works. But skeptics worry that such research could put cost concerns ahead of clinical ones.
    December 17, 2007 - KATHRYN FOXHALL - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • A Letter to My Wife, the Doctor
    Some gentle advice to a physician about caring for a very special patient during flu season.
    December 14, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Medical Practice
  • Love is a Drug    
    eHarmony specializes in getting singles to connect. Now the matchmaking site hopes landmark research will show that good health, not just marriage, is a possible outcome.
    December 12, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Wellness
  • Eye on the Prize    
    Geron's expectations for clinical trials that would transplant a type of neural stem cell into humans are modest, but success would validate a lengthy and costly effort.
    December 04, 2007 - ANN PARSON - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • PODCAST
    December 2007
    December 01, 2007 - Health - Wellness
  • Making Doctors Type    
    A broad coalition wants to make electronic prescriptions mandatory.
    December 01, 2007 - MARIE DAGLIAN - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Junk Science, Junk Food    
    A letter from the editor
    November 22, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Public Health
  • The Price of Compassion
    Caregivers sacrifice financial and physical well being to care for older loved ones.
    November 20, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • Keeping Medicine Personal
    As payers embrace new means to control the rising cost of healthcare, policies must be crafted to ensure treatments meet individual patient needs.
    November 20, 2007 - PETER PITTS AND ROBERT GOLDBERG - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Marked for Growth
    The global demand for biomarkers is expected to grow to $12.8 billion by 2012 thanks in part to the FDA's Critical Path.
    November 14, 2007 - Health - Personalized Medicine
  • Shock and Awe
    The cost of the war in Iraq has already surpassed the amount spent on the Vietnam War, but the healthcare bill that will follow to care for veterans could total as much as $660 billion.
    November 12, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • Getting Personal    
    Tailoring treatments through molecular diagnostics and targeted drugs promises big benefits for pharma, payers, and patients, but barriers stand in the way.
    November 09, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Personalized Medicine
  • History Lessons
    As government's role in healthcare grows, the controversy surrounding proposed plans may have less to do with who pays for it than who proposes it.
    November 07, 2007 - DAVID GOLLAHER - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Dr. Atkins Agonistes    
    Good Calories, Bad Calories
    Gary Taubes
    Knopf, 336 pp, $26.95

    November 01, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Public Health
  • Technology Ahead of Healthcare    
    A letter from the publishers
    November 01, 2007 - DAVID GOLLAHER AND G. STEVEN BURRILL - Health - Personalized Medicine
  • Information Overload    
    In health care, too much choice can lead to inaction or even bad decisions. This expert's prescription: far fewer choices.
    November 01, 2007 - BARRY SCHWARTZ - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • PODCAST
    November 2007
    October 31, 2007 - Health - Personalized Medicine
  • A Mother's Dilemma    
    Parents must decide whether banking their child's cord blood could lead to a cure of a future disease or just be an expensive waste of time.
    October 25, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • Safety Blitz
    Special football helmets alert coaches when potential brain injuries occur.
    October 24, 2007 - ERIC WAHLGREN - Health - Technology
  • A Chronic Problem
    A handful of diseases are costing the economy more than $1 trillion a year, but much of the cost is avoidable.
    October 17, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • Road Kill
    World Health Organization and World Bank take on traffic injury prevention to combat what they see as 1.2 million, largely avoidable, deaths a year.
    October 02, 2007 - Health - Global Health
  • Vive Le Health Care    
    An American expat in France finds the country's medical system isn't perfect (cable TV in hospital rooms would be nice) but excellent and affordable care for everyone is the norm.
    October 01, 2007 - MORT ROSENBLUM - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Getting in the Mood: Candles, Wine, ... and Nasal Spray?    
    Drug makers might be close to a chemical cure for couples' bedroom woes.
    October 01, 2007 - LAIRD HARRISON - Health - Drug Development
  • PHOTO ESSAY: A Mother's Dilemma    
    October 01, 2007 - JOAN SINCLAIR - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • A Big, Fat Irony
    Researchers discover diners consume more calories at low-cal restaurants.
    September 28, 2007 - ERIC WAHLGREN - Health - Public Health
  • A Small Consolation
    The rising cost of health insurance slows, but wages still fail to keep pace.
    September 26, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • The Fat of the Land
    Report finds obesity epidemic in the United States continues to grow.
    September 03, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • A Room with a View    
    Kids play a key role in designing Glasgow new children hospital.
    September 01, 2007 - Michael Friel - Health - Global Health
  • The Chosen    
    New technology will allow doctors to screen embryos for chronic illnesses and personal traits that could develop late in life, but should it?
    September 01, 2007 - By Bruce Goldman - Health - Technology
  • My Healthcare Crisis    
    Why I had to pay $7,345 a month-- for a single drug.
    September 01, 2007 - JUDITH M. LAYZER - Health - Public Health
  • Money Changes Everything
    Stem cell measure draws top researchers to California through promise of funding.
    August 20, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • On Their Own
    Young adults are one of the largest and fastest growing segments of the U.S. population without insurance.
    August 20, 2007 - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Healthy Couture
    Clothes that protect health professionals from bacteria and agricultural workers from pesticides may be coming soon.
    August 17, 2007 - ERIC WAHLGREN - Health - Innovation
  • At a Crossroads
    The public can either follow prescriptive guidance on the banking of cord blood stem cells or make its own informed decision.
    August 15, 2007 - STEPHEN M. GRANT - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • Simple Math
    Pharma should partner with industry in developing nations to create cost-scaled markets within the world's emerging economies.
    July 21, 2007 - LISA CONTE - Health - Global Health
  • Paying for Meds
    July 20, 2007 - Health - Drug Delivery
  • Hatching Companies
    Pfizer gets first tenant for its incubator as it hopes to tap new ideas from outside to help fill the evolving void from drugs going off patent.
    July 20, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Drug Delivery
  • Putting Off The Inevitable
    July 16, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • Paying for Meds
    Prescription drug spending continues to rise, but individuals footing a smaller percentage of the bill.
    July 09, 2007 - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Moore Problems
    Sicko opens the debate on universal healthcare as election season approaches.
    July 06, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • To Err is Human
    A near-death experience for a little girl leads her father to develop medical diagnosis software company.
    July 03, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - information technology
  • Strange Bedfellows
    The battle over who decides whether a medicine is valuable will determine who controls health care in America over the next decade.
    July 02, 2007 - PETER PITTS and ROBERT GOLDBERG - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • Breathing New Life
    Eli Lilly launches public-private non-profit partnership to discover new drugs to treat tuberculosis.
    June 25, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Global Health
  • Diabetic Shock
    Study finds one of eight federal healthcare dollars in 2005 spent on diabetes care.
    June 25, 2007 - Health - Public Health
  • A Shot In The Arm
    A company developing a breakthrough approach to producing vaccines gets boost from US Government.
    June 19, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Vaccines
  • Pharma's High-Mileage Hybrid
    Wyeth hopes to drive up drug discoveries by blurring the lines between pharmaceutical and biotech.
    June 11, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Drug Development
  • Let Science Dictate Research
    Congress should help build on researchers' stem cell momentum.
    June 07, 2007 - JONATHAN C. MORENO and SAM BERGER - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • Tracking Killers
    Northwestern professor's effort to identify adverse drug reactions proves faster than FDA and drug makers, but he says they all need to work together.
    June 06, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Drug Safety
  • Too Much For Too Little
    The U.S. spends more for healthcare, but scores low on quality, access and other measures, report says.
    June 04, 2007 - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • A New Kind of Life Insurance
    California company offers personalized stem cells lines for patients of IVF clinics.
    June 02, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • A Noble Prize
    Hedge fund managers seek to spur innovation in cancer research through $1 million prize.
    June 01, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Innovation
  • News: Hawaii GMO    
    Native interests and the biotech industry are locked in a battle in Hawaii over the vegetable taro.
    May 21, 2007 - HEATHERR BOURBEAU - Health - Drug Development
  • News : Inside Live Tumors    
    MIT researchers are developing an implant that will let doctors monitor malignant tumors from inside the tumors themselves.
    May 20, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Health - Drug Development
  • News : Nanomuscles    
    Artificial muscles made with carbon nanotube yarn are being studied to replace ones in damaged limbs.
    May 19, 2007 - ERIKA STALDER - Health - Drug Development
  • Case Closed
    California's stem cell chairman Robert Klein looks ahead after the state's top court squashes an effort to end funding for research.
    May 18, 2007 - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • News : Napoleon's Last Battle    
    Modern pathological methods suggest that the dictator was felled not by poison but by gastric cancer.
    May 18, 2007 - PETER WINTER - Health - Drug Development
  • A Bear Market    
    Bear bile could be used to treat disorders such as Huntington's, Parkinson's, and Alzheimer's.
    May 17, 2007 - JULIAN SMITH - Health - Drug Development
  • The Global Transformation    
    The international nature of research and development is changing the life sciences in radical ways.
    May 16, 2007 - G. STEVEN BURRILL - Health - Drug Development
  • Patenting Life    
    Patent protections and concerns about sharing information may be holding back crucial developments in medicine and biotech.
    May 15, 2007 - LORI ANDREWS - Health - Drug Development
  • In A Pig's Islet
    Australian company ready to enter clinic with encapsulated pig cells.
    May 14, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Regenerative Medicine
  • RX for Pharma    
    The pharmaceutical industry has some work to do to repair its tarnished image including communicating more clearly the benefits of new drugs.
    May 14, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Drug Development
  • Cynthia Kenyon on New Pathways to Longevity    
    Thanks in part to this researcher's work, scientists are beginning to question many widely accepted views on aging.
    May 13, 2007 - STEPHAN HERRERA - Health - Drug Development
  • Waking up to Sleep Apnea    
    Some 20 percent of the adult population suffers from sleep apnea but physicians typically miss this serious diagnosis.
    May 12, 2007 - DAVID GOLLAHER - Health - Drug Development
  • A Sustainable Model for Negotiation    
    Can the interaction between modern societies and indigenous peoples ever be win-win?
    May 11, 2007 - BRIAN VASTAG - Health - Drug Development
  • Everything Old Is New Again
    As the cost of drug development soars, entrepreneurs and investors are looking to repurpose off-patent drugs.
    May 10, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Drug Development
  • The Vision Thing    
    Is life science more than the sum of its parts?
    May 10, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Drug Development
  • Going Postal on Medical Costs
    The CEO of the largest mail-meter company is changing the face of healthcare.
    May 09, 2007 - DANIEL S. LEVINE - Health - Healthcare Reform
  • The 21st Century Meets the Tin Man    
    Enhancement, longevity, and on-demand spare parts: But can Joe Six-Pack compete with Sid Cyborg?
    May 08, 2007 - BRUCE GOLDMAN - Health - Drug Development
  • A New Frontier of Medicine
    We need to ensure we realize the promise of personalized medicine.
    May 07, 2007 - BARACK OBAMA - Health - Personalized Medicine
  • Next Gen Nobels
    Venture capitalist Andrew Rachleff says the NIH needs to fund more young researchers.
    May 07, 2007 - ANDREW RACHLEFF - Health - Cancer
  • The Last Page    
    The takeaway from Christopher Buckley's Boomsday: Make sure your social policies measure up to the creativity of your innovations.
    May 01, 2007 - WILLIAM PATRICK - Health - Drug Development
  • Eye on the Street
    The latest news and numbers from Wall Street.
    January 22, 2008 - Business - Markets
  • Eye on the Street
    The latest news and numbers from Wall Street.
    January 22, 2008 - Business - Markets
  • Buying Bio
    Why Florida's ambitions aren't costing Southern California any sleep.
    May 08, 2007 - JOE PANETTA - Business - Economic Development