BY FROMA HARROP About 10 years ago, a new radiation treatment for prostate cancer came on line. A single course of “intensity-modulated radiation therapy” cost Medicare about $42,000. The older radiation therapy cost $10,000. Hospitals bought the new machines and stopped using the traditional method. This tacked another $1.5 billion per year to Medicare spending […]

BY EDWIN E. VINEYARD Literally, the Latin phrase reducto ad absurdum means reduction to the absurd. It is used primarily in philosophy and similar areas...

BY JIM HIGHTOWER It’s good to know that some corporate chieftains do feel the pain of their underlings – those hard-hit workers who keep being forced to do more for less reward. Take the example of Gannett, the media giant that owns 23 television stations and 82 newspapers, including USA Today. Early this year, Gannett […]

BY SUSAN ESTRICH I must admit that it took me at least a minute to figure out the Drudge Report headline: “Paw In.” Had there been some gruesome animal attack somewhere, alligators eating little girls’ arms in Florida, a train accident in Eastern Europe or something else I could worry about as my children travel […]