Opinions & Features

The nation’s health faces a dual threat — one anticipated, the other, self-inflicted. Covid-19 has not gone away; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that infections are showing signs of a late summer wave.[...]

AI being used to discover new drugs and faster, more accurate medical diagnoses are guaranteed clickbait. These goals may be the stuff of dreams, but make no mistake, AI is already here.

Paraphrasing a line miscredited to Einstein: “Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”

Six months ago, I wrote in Forbes how the Fed’s Inflation fight would harm Biotech. With the FDIC takeover of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) using the receiver, Deposit Insurance National Bank of Santa Clara the[...]

A looming and avoidable Covid-19 crisis is on the horizon as detailed by Dr. Steve Brozak in a piece breaking today for Forbes. The pandemic emergency declaration is to end May 11 with only “placeholder”[...]

In May 2020, Dr. Rick Bright, former director of BARDA, warned Congress that, without ramped up coronavirus pandemic preparedness, we would face the darkest winter in modern history. His warnings were spot on, however there[...]

I can’t speak to the appropriateness of the prison time. But I believe that no financial award could come close to equivalency for the irreparable harm the Theranos debacle has done to individual patients, the[...]

Serious thought should be given to the effect the anticipated Federal Reserve 0.75% rate hike will have on the biotechnology industry and consequently on the health of the nation.

Can the New CDC meet the monkeypox challenge? What will happen when your child’s school reports the first case of monkeypox? It isn't a question of if, it's a question of when. Monkeypox may not[...]