Notes for the President Tomorrow evening, President Obama will address the nation from the US Military Academy at West Point. After three months of deliberating with his “war cabinet,” the President will outline his decision, which is presumed to...

How to Rebalance the Picture There’s front page outrage in today’s The New York Times. The pharmaceutical industry is roasted again in “Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform.” How much of the criticism is deserved, and how much...

Social Media Are the Means, Not the Ends While scanning through a long list of Twitter posts the other day, I saw a link to TechCrunch, a blog “dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.” An entry by MG...

Feud Adds to Public Confusion Over Cancer Screening As if there isn’t already enough conflicting information about cancer screening, a tiff between The New York Times and the American Cancer Society – two trusted sources of information – have the...

The Internet Is Another Health Disparity That Must Be Addressed If you ask your friends, relatives and colleagues if they’ve used the Internet to find healthcare information, I’d be willing to bet the answer would be yes. There’s no question that...