The Public Interest Standard: Is it too Indeterminate to be Constitutional?

Is it too late to treat me?

We present the case of a 76-year-old Caucasian man with a type 1 endoleak at the proximal edge of a thoracic stentgraft (Talent 38 mm × 114 mm) detected four years after endovascular treatment of a large symptomatic saccular aneurysm in the distal aortic arch. The patient refused any interventional treatment for the endoleak and remained on medical therapy with no evolving symptoms. Surveillanc...

If it is to be, it is up to me.

Is it all too much?

I couldn’t help but notice the recent press reports of how the weather was going to be dealt with for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Having picked the wettest month of the year to hold the Olympic Games, the Chinese have developed one of the world’s largest weather modification strategies. Weather patterns over Beijing in recent decades indicate a 50% chance of rain during the Games. Clearly, this ...

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Is it too late to turn back the clock?

The esteemed health economist, Gavin Mooney, who died in tragic circumstances in December 2012, devoted his last book The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy to exposing the pernicious effects of neoliberalism on healthcare. He argued compellingly that the consequences of ‘neoliberalism’ – in his usage, the reliance on market mechanisms to address all the needs of a society in th...