Health Affairs

In his recent book, NIH Director Francis Collins refers to DNA and the new science of genomics as “the language of life.”  Thanks to the mapping of the human genome, says Collins, virtually all biomedical researchers agree “that their approach to understanding how life works has been profoundly and irreversibly affected….”  This profound new knowledge, of... Read the rest of this entry »

As a nation, we have engaged in many debates and much discourse on how to improve America’s health care system. There has been an understandable focus on the well-trod issues, such as health costs, access, and the specifics of a number of health reform plans. Let me offer one more issue that I believe deserves... Read the rest of this entry »