Can Cost-Effective Health Care=Better Health Care?

Experts agree that curbing costs is essential to effective health care reform in the United States if we are ever to provide medical treatment for everyone who needs it. But how to cut costs while maintaining high quality? In this special report, the Review talks to Harvard School of Public Health researchers to examine how U.S. health care can cover more people by more rationally using resources—but without health care rationing. read more

Plastics: Danger Where We Least Expect It

A confusing patchwork of regulations on plastics containing the chemical bisphenol A (BPA) have left consumers in the lurch. Should we avoid the plastic water bottles, food cans, and myriad other products in our daily lives that contain BPA? Are we being harmed by a chemical that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says is present in detectable levels in 93 percent of Americans ages 6 and older? What should we do when the experts themselves can’t agree? read more

Dean's Message: H1N1 and Comprehensive Health Security

The H1N1 pandemic has had a profound impact on global security. read more