Back in November, Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee wrote a remarkably candid essay for a special election issue of the trade journal Modern Healthcare. Since then, the former Arkansas governor’s campaign has morphed from single-digit obscurity to mainstream prominence, and the candor on health care has mostly been scrubbed clean from his Web site. Nonetheless, […]

By any measure, heart disease, once manifest by sudden death, has largely joined the ranks of chronic diseases in developed countries that can be managed by drugs and behavior, as several articles in the new January-February issue of Health Affairs devoted to Cardiovascular Disease & Society note. And of all diseases that have been […]