New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies New Medicare Benefit Helps Only Drug Companies
Why are so few elderly people signing up for the new Medicare drug benefit? It's cumbersome, costly and totally confusing.
Nov 16, 2005 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
The Disappearing Flu Vaccine The Disappearing Flu Vaccine
Flu vaccine is in short supply this season, and the reason is that drug companies can't make as much money protecting us from disease as from developing expensive treatments for ni...
Nov 14, 2005 / Feature / Nicholas von Hoffman
Germ Boys and Yes Men Germ Boys and Yes Men
Stewart Simonson is a former Amtrak corporate attorney with zero medical experience. So why is he in charge of emergency health and bioterrorism in the federal government?
Nov 9, 2005 / Feature / Jeremy Scahill
Scare Scenario Scare Scenario
It has all the makings of a horror flick, but panic over a possible bird flu pandemic is following a time-honored script: sensational media reports, profit-hungry drug manufacturer...
Oct 24, 2005 / Feature / Dr. Marc Siegel
Darwin and God Darwin and God
Darwin's discoveries about evolution never argued against the existence of God. And the theory of "intelligent design" is a dangerous attempt to undermine science and justify a lit...
Oct 4, 2005 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS Roberts’s Queer Reasoning on AIDS
When John G. Roberts Jr. counseled President Ronald Reagan on AIDS policies, did he willfully perpetuate the myth that AIDS can be spread by casual contact?
Sep 26, 2005 / Feature / David W. Webber
The Red Cross: A Question of Competence The Red Cross: A Question of Competence
The Gulf Coast hurricanes have raised new questions about the integrity and competence of the American Red Cross to respond to national emergencies. In this report from The Nation...
Sep 21, 2005 / Feature / Linda Heller
Fear Itself Fear Itself
Some people are scaring themselves about the wrong things in ways that are doing terrorists' work for them. Here's one physician's prescription for bringing irrational fears under ...
Sep 20, 2005 / Editorial / Dr. Marc Siegel
‘The Constant Gardener’: What the Movie Missed ‘The Constant Gardener’: What the Movie Missed
As Big Pharma increasingly turns to the Third World to test its products, this lush film will spark outrage, but glosses over the constant vigilance necessary to police drug trials...
Aug 30, 2005 / Books & the Arts / Sonia Shah
Junk Food Nation Junk Food Nation
The recent conflict over what America eats is an example of how in Bush's America corporate interests trump public health.
Aug 11, 2005 / Feature / Gary Ruskin and Juliet Schor