From Wired, an author describes why he thinks blogs are a permanent part of Internet evolution and not some passing fad.

Once again the right of taxpayers to see the results of NIH research they paid for promptly was hobbled to protect the profits of publishing companies. Surprize, surprize!  From the WP: An ambitious proposal to make the results of federally funded medical research available to the public quickly and for free has been scaled back by the National Institutes of ...

One thing nearly everyone agrees would benefit our health care system is moving to digital, computer-based records. It’s a massive undertaking and the key would be to seamlessly link hundreds of thousands of service providers and payers together while giving patients a sense of security about their medical information. The Bush administration has talked a lot about it but failed ...

Have you wondered why it’s taking so long to figure out bad, complex diseases like cancer? Well one reason is that basic biological processes–gene regulation in this case–are not as simple as we figured. Ever since they finished sequencing the human genome a few years ago and we learned that we have maybe 25,000 genes instead of the 100,000 we ...