Depression 2009: What won?t it look like?
Yesterday’s Boston Globe Ideas section led off with a typically cheery piece. (See Depression 2009: What would it look like?) The subtitle: Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A c...

Medical tourism in South Korea
Yesterday’s New York Times devoted an article to the emergence of medical tourism as a growth industry in South Korea. (See South Korea Joins Lucrative Practice of Inviting Medical Tourists to Its ...

Is big pharma preparing to shoot itself in the foot?
Big pharma has big problems. The root cause is a lack of R&D productivity, which means a dearth of new products to make up for looming patent expirations. Something like half of big pharma’s revenu...

Miller calls foul on Humana YouTube videos
Health insurer Humana hired some creative types to do a cutesy series of informational videos to post on YouTube and then to promote the videos to bloggers and presumably other media. Health Policy...