DEI, Academic Freedom, and the Threat to American Science
Since the end of World War II, a robust partnership between the U.S. federal government and academic ...View More
Healthcare Costs Are Not a Simple Fix
In 2022, the United States spent $4.5 trillion on healthcare—an astonishing $13500 per person. That' ...View More
The "Best" Waste, Fraud, and Dysfunction in American Healthcare
The Lown institute keeps an eye on fraud, waste, and dysfunction in American healthcare, and every y ...View More
Can We Engineer the Environment to Avoid Junk Foods?
Can we change our behavior by changing the environment? A lot of junk food is available in the check ...View More
Covid Vaccine Misinformation or Disinformation? Which Was Worse?
In May 2024 a set of articles were published in the journal Science that focused on the intersection ...View More
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There's been a fair amount of good news on the allergy front lately, including a medication for food ...View More
What Are Hospice and Palliative Care?
For many of us, a time will come at the end of our lives when we need a specific kind of care to mai ...View More
Tampon Tim | Menstruation, Public Schools, and Political Nicknames
Like it or not, political mudslinging gets heavy around election time, and people come up with all f ...View More
How Medicare Started Negotiating Drug Prices
Reuploaded 11/2/2024 with a corrected typo. In most countries, health care systems negotiate drug pr ...View More
Can mRNA Vaccines Work for Cancer?
The first mRNA vaccine to gain full FDA approval was for COVID-19, but the future could see more of ...View More
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