Medical Progress Today

Medical Progress Today is a web magazine devoted to chronicling the connection between private sector investment and biomedical innovation, market friendly public policies, and medical progress. Medical Progress Today shows how market forces and capitalism can promote innovative new health technologies that save and extend human life, reduce disabi... lity, and help people lead more productive lives. It pulls together the best thoughts and best thinkers on these topics and serves as an online resource for those dedicated to pursuing medical progress in market driven, non-ideological approaches. Medical Progress Today is published by the Center for Medical Progress at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Robert Goldberg is the director of MedicalProgressToday.com and a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute working on research and activities on health care issues. His current research interests include examining the impact of price controls on biopharmaceutical innovation, FDA reform, and the impact that government regulation of medicine has had on health care quality. He has written on the value of medical innovation, Medicare reform, reimportation of medicines from Canada and the role that free market institutions have in promoting access to better medicines and health care. His current work examines the impact that medical progress will have on people in the future and why medical innovation has so many enemies in Congress, activist groups, and the media. Goldberg is the author of numerous articles and reports including "Vaccinating Against Disaster," "False Economy on Drugs," "Importation Nightmare," and "Fight AIDS With Reason, Not Rhetoric." Dr. Goldberg has testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging, the Senate Small Business Committee, and the House Commerce Committee. He has written for, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, National Review Online, The Weekly Standard and writes regularly for The Washington Times. Robert Goldberg received his Ph.D. in ...Read More