News Inventory

For the past three weeks, each issue of The New England Journal of Medicine has featured viewpoints on the pressing health-care policy issues facing the next administration. These topics (in case you haven’t heard) include health insurance and rising health-care costs, and how to balance them economically, ethically, and politically. I see the insanity of the current “system” pretty much every day. For instance: the patient crippled by diabetes at age 60, unable to hold a job, and therefore out of luck when it ... Read More

Syria says it’s ready to put a Russian missile system on its soil as a counterweight to U.S. plans to deploy a missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. The offer was made during a meeting between Syrian leader Bashar Al-Assad and President Dmitry Medvedev in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. Meanwhile, Moscow is considering a request from Syria for more Russian-made weapons. It was the first meeting between the two leaders, and President Al-Assad was keen to show Syria’s support for ... Read More

We've all wondered at some point or another what mysteries our Solar System holds. After all, the eight planets (plus Pluto and all those other dwarf planets) orbit within a very small volume of the heliosphere (the volume of space dominated by the influence of the Sun), what's going on in the rest of the volume we call our home? As we push more robots into space, improve our observational capabilities and begin to experience space for ourselves, we learn more and ... Read More