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Covid-19 has altered world history.
Covid-19 may be here for a long time.
America is home to a vast, dynamic life-science industry.
Regulators at the Food and Drug Administration have a tough job.
Obamacare has made insurance costlier and far less comprehensive.
It's now evident that public health is part of national security.
Antibiotic resistance is as old as the dirt that coats our planet.
Covid spreads too easily to think it can be confined to the young.
Accurate diagnostics are key to enabling successful public health measures.
Creative destruction is an increasingly prominent feature of modern medical practice.
When the price of a drug rises, it becomes profitable and the target of new competition.
The fact is, many poor patients visit ERs simply because they don't have a family doctor.
More government control of doctors and their reimbursement schemes will only create more problems.
Gene editing will be used to alter DNA to erase the origins of a range of debilitating inherited disorders.
The key to the generic-drug economic model is to keep entry prices low enough to attract multiple competitors.
Limiting Covid's impact requires us to think differently about confronting respiratory pathogens in the winter.
A respiratory pathogen may pose an asymmetric risk to America, given our culture, economy and federalist system.
Before Obamacare, many working class Americans had an upper middle class healthcare benefit that they got at work.
ObamaCare has accelerated many of the detrimental trends doctors see in their profession, and introduced new ones.
One of the noxious features of Obamacare was its forced march into a single, federally designed package of health benefits.
Policies I advanced as FDA commissioner aimed to get smokers off cigarettes and onto less-harmful forms of nicotine delivery.
Cell-based and regenerative medicine can restore human functions lost to disease, including returning some sight to the blind.
EpiPen is not unique. It falls into a category of old drugs, many of which should have long been subject to generic competition.
Even with all its political bells and whistles, the Obamacare plans increasingly resemble Medicaid in terms of networks and drug lists.
Our Founders thought politicians should be accountable when it comes to citizens' right to life, liberty and the pursuit of heart surgery.
Trying to stretch the mission of a health program like Medicaid, as a way to launder redistributionist goals, ends up serving nobody well.
Among the most common reasons why people come to an emergency room are bouts of heart failure or pneumonia. Sometimes they have a touch of both.
The ACA purposely constrains choice as a top-down means of cost control. Obamacare isn't a consumer-driven, high-deductible scheme. It's hollow coverage.
In 'Pox: An American History,' Michael Willrich meticulously traces the story of how the smallpox vaccine was pressed into service during a major outbreak.
We've been scared from using antibiotics and antivirals out of some kind of weird sense of communal responsibility to keep bugs naive to our powerful weapons.
The convergence of information technology and biology allows scientists to translate the human genome into digital data that can accelerate diagnoses and cures.
Politicians wage broad wars on medicine to claim thin strips of ideological terrain. This would be good political theater if there weren't so many human victims.
In the U.S, Zika outbreaks are hopefully going to be easy to isolate. The biggest threat is likely to be from the fear Zika sows, especially among expectant moms.
America tolerates a heavy toll from the flu on health and productivity. But if Covid becomes a twin risk, the heath-care system will struggle to fight both at once.
The ability of working class Americans to bargain for health coverage at work gave them access to the same basic packages of benefits as executive management teams.
There's a big difference between apps that help you manage your medical information and draw clues from your own bodies, and those that seek to actively doctor you.
One thing about Covid-19 is clear: We don't fully understand its severity and transmission. At various turns, we've both underestimated and overestimated the virus.
When people age, the main valve carrying blood out of the heart becomes brittle. As this aortic valve narrows, it can cause debilitating heart failure, and even death.
From West Nile to swine flu to Ebola to the global outbreak of dengue fever, the capacity to deal with threats like Zika must be designed into our preparedness posture.
A seductive technology that works like a dream and improves lives will set off a consumer clamor, whether the new tool is an iPhone 4S or an implantable blood-sugar meter.
Reformers in Washington need to do a better job of explaining how market-based alternatives to ObamaCare are a better outcome for the structure and delivery of health care.
As Apple advances the medical promise of its watch and smartphones, it has also made clear that its foremost aim is to steer clear of Food and Drug Administration regulation.
The authors of the Affordable Care Act wrongly assumed that new kinds of health plans, engineered in Washington, D.C., would emerge to displace the national for-profit insurers.
Rather than redistribute physician income as a way to subsidize an expansion of government control, Mr. Obama should fix the payment system to align incentives with improved care.
The pace at which fundamental discoveries of basic science are being uncovered is accelerating, as is the speed at which medical practice is being transformed by these inventions.
Patients would be better off if states were able to tailor the benefits that Medicaid covers - targeting resources to sicker people and giving healthy adults cheaper, basic coverage.
A true legislative alternative to ObamaCare would support physician ownership of independent medical practices, and preserve local competition between doctors and choice for patients.
Health-assessment software such as CareEvolution's 'Safer Covid' tool can combine multiple health factors to evaluate a person's total risk of contracting Covid or suffering a bad outcome.
While faulty information from a digital health tool can influence people to make bad decisions, the risks are far lower than those posed by the usual products FDA subjects to pre-market review.
Obamacare mandates a largely uniform structure and set of benefits and insurance design across the entire country. It leaves consumers with very little real choice of the health benefits they want.