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Diarrhea has been ignored by the rich world for decades. For many people outside Africa, the continent's calamitous health problems are largely defined by two epidemics: AIDS and malaria. There is a World AIDS Day and a World Malaria Day, and countless medical researchers work to combat the two...
But apparently, Mankiw appreciates Lady Gaga's artistry—and he's bold enough to admit it. We're not going to be the type of people who pigeonhole intellects in the realm of the unartistic: if economists who happen to be fans of Lady Gaga are open to...
Comparative Effectiveness After a huge behind-the-scenes fight last winter, Congress allocated $1.1 billion of the economic-stimulus measure to "comparative effectiveness" studies, which evaluate which medical treatments and tests work best. Both the House and Senate bills would set up institutes to compare the efficacy of various procedures...
While the legislation would give the Health and Human Services Secretary more authority than she has now to put some pilot programs into effect, the Senate is already putting the brakes on some of the more innovative ideas. Under its version of the bill, three of the pilot programs that...
And that's unlikely to change. Take the recent uproar over the recommendation by a government-appointed expert panel that most women delay routine mammograms until age 50. As Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius furiously tried to distance the Administration from the recommendation, a chorus of critics declared...