Don’t know quite what to say about this report: The nation’s tab for health care — already the highest per person in the industrialized world — could hit $3.6 trillion by 2014, or nearly 19 percent of the entire U.S. economy, up from 15.4 percent now, a sobering government projection says. Growth in health-care spending will outpace economic growth through ...

I attended a San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Biotechnology Forum today. It was an overflow crowd of people wanting to hear how the expansion of biotech at Mission Bay will bring business to the city. They went away assured it will. They project that during the next 10 years life science employment in the city will increase from 35,000 jobs ...

Here I was, predicting indefinite life extension the other day, and now a futurist newsletter has a more pessimistic view: we may be eating ourselves to death. Pigging-out may more that offset the gains in longevity from medical progress. True, people won’t live for millennia if they self-destruct. From Futurist Update: The dramatic rise in obesity is the primary catalyst–obesity ...

From Health-IT World: Kentucky Gov. Ernie Fletcher, M.D., last week signed legislation to create a statewide electronic health information network and establish an academic research partnership that boosters say could become a foundation for national healthcare reform. The signing caps a four-year effort by Sen. Daniel Mongiardo, M.D., an otolaryngologist from the Appalachian town of Hazard, Ky., who is the ...