Patent Reform Act Would Hurt Small Business Owners

Patents Must Be Protected

Congress is currently considering legislation that would alter the way patents have been awarded in America for centuries. But with America at the top of the global heap when it comes to innovation in science and technology, why mess with success?

How Not to Win the Fight Against AIDS

Stopping the spread of AIDS in the developing world is no small task. But the solution is not to decry those trying to find cures -- nor to remove their incentive to develop new treatments. Rather, activists and leaders must work to reform the systemic problems -- like dysfunctional health systems and poor governance. Those are the biggest obstacles to stopping AIDS worldwide.

Testimony before the New York State Assembly Committee on Health

The New York state legislature is considering an avalanche of bills designed to ratchet down pharmaceutical prices and spending, even though drug spending represents only 4% of New York's total $47 billion Medicaid budget. Assemblyman Richard N. Gottfried, chair of the Health Committee, held a hearing on four of these bills.

Letter to the Editor of The Boston Globe

A Paean to Patents

Warnings on prescription drugs may have caused overreactions

For most of the past twenty years, teen suicide rates have fallen quite consistently. Many credit the introduction of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), a commonly-prescribed class of anti-depressants, for this drop. But in 2004...

Drug Safety or Drug Danger?

Two pieces of legislation dealing with prescription drugs are currently winding their way through Congress. The bills, however, are completely contradictory. One would create new controls for drug safety. The other would open the nation's supply chain...