A Huge Threat to the U.S. Budget Has Receded. And No One Is Sure Why.
Instead of growing and growing, as it always had, spending [...]
When Politics Saves Lives: a Good-News Story
The decision to fund medications to treat H.I.V.-AIDS patients in [...]
Medicare Begins to Rein In Drug Costs for Older Americans
Reforms embedded in the Inflation Reduction Act will bring savings [...]
Can a Federally Funded ‘Netflix Model’ Fix the Broken Market for Antibiotics?
Shortages and drug-resistant germs have renewed attention on a $6 [...]
How Democrats Salvaged a History-Making Bill
The climate change and prescription drug law has revived a [...]
F.D.A. Seeks Outside Review of Troubled Food and Tobacco Units
The agency’s commissioner asked an external foundation to examine its [...]
Monkeypox Catches New York City Off Guard (Again)
Long lines for vaccines. Testing is slowed. Antivirals are held [...]
Save America’s Patent System
It needs to promote innovation, not reward legal trickery.
German Start-Ups Lay the Groundwork for a Marijuana Bonanza
Two of the three parties in Germany’s new governing coalition [...]
Beneath a Covid Vaccine Debacle, 30 Years of Government Culpability
Washington has rejected plans to revamp vaccine preparedness for decades [...]