Robert Goldberg
Reading Amy Goldstein’s breathless puff piece on Donald Berwick may remind people of something Mark Twain said in a speech he called ‘License of the Press.’ Twain observed: “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the…
Opponents of medical progress are celebrating the decision of a Food and Drug Administration panel to revoke approval of the use of Avastin in treating advance breast cancer. Not so fast. As Scott Hensley, a health care reporter for NPR,…
Leading Democrats in the House want to create a whole new multi-million research project to investigate whether cell phone use causes cancer in the wake of an overhyped report from the World Health Organization claiming that the devices “might” be…
Is President Obama using his European trip to pressure Israel to accept a peace deal based on the Jewish State’s pre-war borders? Days after the President claimed to be misunderstood it now appears that he and Secretary of State Hillary…
How dumb and damaging was President’s Obama speech on the Middle East? 1. Just when everyone was focusing on how Arab states could get their internal politics in order, Obama shifts the attention back to Israel. 2. Just when everyone was focusing…
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) recently issued a report accusing Governor Mitch Daniels, who once was President of North American operations for Eli Lilly, of illegally marketing medicines that caused thousands of people to get sick and die. It’s…
I was in Israel for two weeks hearing nothing but how the Obama administration is tougher (in action and language) on Israel than it has been on the Muslim Brotherhood (the White House seder included a Tahrir Square salad) and…
One drug, two federal agencies, and the future of patient access to the best possible medical treatment: That’s the drama playing out in Washington right now. Avastin is an innovative biologic used primarily to treat various forms of late-stage cancer. It’s…
Last week Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius wrote an op-ed on the first anniversary of the ramming through — I mean passage — of Obamacare, proclaiming “Everyone prospers under health law.” Unfortunately it appears that the real and…
Consider it the conservative movement’s Charlie Sheen moment. Some conservative think tank types have quietly complained that Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and President Obama are on the same road to government run healthcare, albeit at different speeds. This whisper has…
