Price Transparency—Promise and Peril

The Peril of Vehemence

Certain promise and uncertain peril

A Hippocratic oath is required not only for the individual patient but also for the community at large. This thought is provoked by a number of debates in health care on the potential conflict between personal need and the common good. Should high-tech medicine be funded at the expense of preventative and community health? Did the saving of individual lives through antibiotics spawn killer stra...

Peril in the pink

awareness of the plight of this unique habitat. The Swiss photographer, Thomas Marent, has spent his adult life seeking out the spectacular beauty of the most striking plants and creatures. Tackling everything from poor light to predatory animals, biting insects, invisible diseases and intense humidity, Marent has ventured through rainforests from Costa Rica and Peru to Borneo, Sulawesi and Aus...

Plates in peril

garden asparagus is thought originally to be native in eastern Europe or western Asia, perhaps in or near the Caucasus, although it is widely naturalised inland and on the coast.” But wild asparagus is becoming increasingly rare. It is found only on the coasts of northern Spain, northwestern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Ireland. And some of the known populations comprise as few ...

The Promise and Peril of Executive Federalism: