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After hints that the rapid growth in health care spending was slowing, a report being released today suggests the brief reprieve has stalled and the soaring costs are likely to force more people out of the market. The Washington Post reported Health spending by privately insured Americans rose 8.2 percent in 2004, virtually the same increase as the previous year, ...

The L.A. Times newspaper has launched a new form of editorial, the wikitorial The LA Times editorial staff introduces the new feature in a recent editorial, and the first wikitorial, War and Consquences , has already been posted. Is this an innovative new way to interact with readers, or will it be constantly defaced by reactionaries? Looks like I already ...

I want to extend a big ol’ welcome to the latest contributor to FISpace, Sarah Goodwin. Sarah is the Director of Internal Communication Strategies with the Society’s National Home Office in Atlanta. The best introduction for Sarah is her first post below, NIH Starts "Roadmap" to study small molecules. You can see she’ll be making a big contribution to this ...

Over on Community Mobilization I posted the contents of a letter I sent out to the various work groups that are working on our SL Relay For Life.  It is getting very exciting and we are seeing some fantastic, yet fragmented efforts.  I love the fact that we have such talent doing what they do best to affect pieces of ...