Index of Internal Medicine

Whether in health care, public spending, or any arena of life, solutions sometimes come when we re-imagine a problem. Consider this one. With an aging population, how can we address the rising costs and the burden on the health care system associated with chronic illnesses? That’s one of the burning issues facing system providers and policy makers these days. But I look at that question another...  Read More

This month's PLoS Medicine p ublishes a paper describing the results of a very early drug discovery study. The nature of early drug development is to identify many promising compounds, only a small number of which eventually make it into routine treatment. Consequently, there are many more papers reporting promising leads in early drug development than ones that report efficacy in large clinical...  Read More