• American Healthcare History and Financing

    Yesterday Yvonne saw Understanding the Healthcare Law, a great presentation by Dr. James Rohack on Health System Reform. Rohack is a practicing cardiologist and Director of Scott & White Center for Healthcare Policy. He is also a…

  • Public Investments in Health

    Today’s post is based on a Robert Reich video about Public Investments being the biggest deficit you’ve never heard of. While he describes the need to invest in infrastructure and basic research, this short post extends…

  • Bionic Eye Gives Hope for the Blind

    (originally published on May 3, 2013, updated May 20, 2021) Dr. Mark Humayun was going to be a doctor all along, but when a family member lost her eyesight, he soon began his journey as an innovator. “When…