The pharmaceutical industry spends $21 billion each year on marketing. Although you and I have become painfully and nauseatingly aware of how much they throw at so-called direct-to-consumer advertising, 90% of that marketing tab is directed at doctors. It’s an embarrassing problem. [Read more…]

The State of the Union message is coming up on January 31. What would you feel if President Bush promised to do everything in his power to end the oil economy and usher in an age of alternative energy?

I had the same feeling yesterday when I read [Read more…]

How dangerous is the bird flu? While “deadly” has been repeatedly attached to it, until last week, no one had actually asked.

“Deadly” got attached because about half of the small number of people, mostly in Asia, who have been diagnosed with the H5N1 virus have died. These were people who made it to a hospital or clinic in a city. This doesn’t tell us much about what’s going on in the countryside. [Read more…]