Author: Ken Fisher MD

Unlike Social Security paying a specific amount, Medicare and Medicaid are open-ended with the individual removed from determining the amount

With today’s advanced molecular biology techniques, the accidental release of a disease enhanced virion from a purely scientific laboratory can

We in the West have repeatedly pursued a failed policy of trying to eliminate the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,

The benefit a nation derives from having a highly educated and productive group of citizens was evident post W.W. II. Over

We face a unique challenge in our nation. As our technological age advances with the skills required for employment increasing, our

 The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has brought out the worst from our medical leadership, press, social media sites and politicians.  Differing viewpoints

    The 19th century author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley in 1818, at the age of 21, wrote, Frankenstein, sometimes called the “Modern Prometheus”, considered

As quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Senator Elizabeth Warren said during a recent Senate Finance hearing discussing intellectual property

  In the late 1950s my father was a patient in one of the major Boston hospitals suffering from cancer of

 The anti-Vietnam warriors of the 1960s and mid 1970s and their trainees are now the senior leadership in most institutions

A basic tenant of medicine is that every person is unique requiring tailoring of therapies to meet his or her

A deadly virus, SARS CoV-2, causing the disease Covid-19, came out of Wuhan China with its worldwide spread propelled by

We know in precise detail what medical students are charged and the debt they assume, but the actual cost to

The infectious disease section of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has had many wonderful successes in fighting diseases, for

Medicaid, originally to provide medical care for the poor and disabled, was passed in 1965 almost as an afterthought, along

For centuries a basic concept of medicine has been to find and treat diseases as early as possible. This is the

One of the first acts of Congress in the young U.S.A. was to pass the Patent Act of 1790, which