An innovative experiment looks at whether texting reminders can prompt people to get checkups.
Health Care
Health Care’s Coming Crisis: Out-of-Pocket Costs
Soaring deductibles, co-pays and other costs will be the next big debate in health care.
Taking Liberties with Religious Liberty
The “conscience clause,” on which a conservative Supreme Court keeps granting employers exemptions from federal law, was a political decision, and more fragile than liberals realize.
Time to Put Big Soda on a Diet
Excess sugar intake is killing Americans. But a few giant, consolidated beverage companies keep squashing reform efforts.
Prescription Drug Sales Are Spiking – Is Advertising to Blame?
Drug companies spend more than $3 billion a year on advertising. It works.
More Than a Pink Ribbon
Breast cancer awareness and prevention are important, but patients’ mental health needs deserve equal attention.
Change the Course of Biomedical History
Congress shouldn’t bypass a groundbreaking opportunity to support medical research.
How Obamacare Is Winning “Young Invincibles”
More than 5.7 million young Americans have become insured since 2010.
The Long Term Care Time Bomb
America’s biggest demographic challenges might be posed not by the very young, but by the very old.
Death with Indignity
How Medicare and other federal subsidies rope the elderly into painful, futile, and costly end-of-life care.
