Two recent stories in the New York Times caught my attention because they seem to represent the opposite sides of the same coin. Or as we like to call it, the American healthcare system.In a moving piece in the Sunday Times Magazine, Katy Butler describes how a pacemaker kept her elderly father alive, but at [...]

Psychiatrist Charles Nemeroff, formerly of Emory University, now at the University of Miami, remains the poster child for conflicts of interest in medicine run amok. The National Institutes of Health continues to dig a deeper hole in its dealings with its erstwhile grantee.For those not following the latest turns in the [...]

The National Institutes of Health has approved the first 13 lines of embryonic stem cells for use by federal researchers, ushering in a new era of research that is both promising and controversial.

The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Dr. Francis Collins — a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project — as director of the National Institutes of Health. “Dr. Collins is one of our generation’s great scientific leaders,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.