Medical Progress Today shows how market forces and capitalism can promote innovative new health technologies that save and extend human life, reduce disability, 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.

Paul Howard, Ph.D. is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Manhattan Institute's Center for Medical Progress. He is the managing editor of Medical Progress Today, a web magazine devoted to chronicling the connection between private sector investment and biomedical innovation, market-friendly public policies, and improved health.

As editor, he has written on a wide variety of medical policy issues, including medical malpractice, FDA reform, and Medicare policy initiatives. He is often quoted on health care issues and his columns have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the New York Post, Dallas Morning News, Investor's Business Daily and WashingtonPost.com. He is also a member of the Manhattan Institute's Project FDA, a committee of physician-scientists, economists, medical ethicists, and policy experts. Their purpose is to show how 21st-century technologies can help better inform FDA regulations and accelerate the drug-development and drug-approval process while maintaining drug safety.

When Paul first joined the Manhattan Institute in 2000, he worked as the Deputy Director for the Center for Legal Policy where he edited research papers, managed legal policy analyses and organized conferences.

Articles/Op-Eds by Paul Howard

David Gratzer, a physician, is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Dr. Gratzer's research interests include Medicare and Medicaid, drug reimportation, and FDA reform. Nobel laureate Milton Friedman suggests that Dr. Gratzer is "a natural-born economist." David Gratzer's most recent book, with Foreword by Milton Friedman, is The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care (Encounter Books, October 2006).

Articles/Op-Eds by David Gratzer

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