Tag: Health

Articles tagged with health

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Andrea Louise Campbell

The Future of U.S. Health Care

The Affordable Care Act is a monumental accomplishment.

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David V. Johnson Pamela S. Karlan

‘Obamacare’ Is Constitutional, But …

Pam Karlan on the Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling.

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Marcia Angell

Big Pharma, Bad Medicine

Relationships between academic institutions and biotechnology companies create conflicts of interest that undermine the goals of academic medicine and harm the public.

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Rachel Glennerster Michael Kremer

Small Changes, Big Results

That people respond to the relative costs and returns of schooling might imply that the poor are optimizing the amount of school they invest in, as predicted in a simple economic model. But evidence suggests that reality is more complex.

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Sandra J. Tanenbaum

The Antidepressant Wars

A fierce debate that ignores patients.

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Anne Fausto-Sterling

Bodies with Histories

The new search for the biology of race.

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Suzanne Gordon

The Cure

Can doctors change how they think?

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Pamela S. Karlan

The Health Care Challenge Threatens All Regulation

 If Congress had voted to provide every American with health care through a national health service, that new law would be safe from constitutional challenge.

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Lance Tapley

The Worst of the Worst

Supermax Torture in America

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Susan Reverby

Our Man in Guatemala

An eminent medical historian discusses two major, blatantly unethical studies the U.S. government conducted on syphilis patients in Guatemala and Alabama.

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