Repealing the Frontiers of Ignorance

A while ago I finish John Goodman’s great book Priceless:Curing The Health Care Crisis . If you learn one thing about this book it is ho...

This recent story   from Bloomberg got me somewhat irritated today. The story discusses how medical school students are burdened with ...

With much people still talking about healthcare reform I thought there was one area thing people were not talking about: nurse practitio...

Interesting the genome has gone down dramatically since 2001 and most likely will continue to go down. The  big decrease seemed to come af...

Since I am always interested in new technology I thought it was pretty cool when I saw this story about Patrick Soon-Shiong who is a ...

I saw this recent headline that the blood supply was at its lowest level in 15 years. This is quite interesting because our population ...

Today the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the government can force people to buy health insurance. What the Supreme Court d...

On Rock Center with Brian Williams there was a story about a young girl named Jordan Flynn who suffers from fanconi anemia an incur...

As I have mentioned here here and here about much of the FDA does not only stifle innovation but more people die because the FDA do...

     Something I have been thinking recently about is the organ transplant market which limits the amount of organs that can get to pe...

In this report by Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute finds that the cost of Phase II trials is increasing the costs of drugs. Roy ...

                Something interesting I have learned about in the past week weeks I natural orifice surgery. I saw an article about a wom...

Perhaps the only free market hospital is in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The Surgery Center of Oklahoma performs all different types of surgeri...

Medical testing may be reaching the next frontier. Recently Michael Synder of Stanford University spent the last two years sequencing his DN...

In 1971, President Richard Nixon declared a war on cancer or what is known as the National Cancer Act of 1971. I hate when politicians say t...

A few weeks ago I read a story about Richard Rainwater and his battle with a potentially fatal disease. Rainwater is probably most famous fo...

People often talk about obesity being an epidemic. As if there was something in the water that was somehow making us all larger. Recently, i...

I read an article in today’s Wall Street Journal that discussed Pfizer trying to get the FDA to approve Lipitor for over the counter use. Th...

Recently, I have been thinking a lot about markets and how healthcare really isn’t a free market. When I think about free markets I think ab...

A recent study showed that people that only consumed 600 calories for 8 weeks may reverse diabetes. So 11 people were in the study (not very...