Matthew Herper

Will Obamacare Reduce the Crazy Variation in Hospital Prices?

forbes.com — If you have been paying attention to US healthcare policy debates lately, you know that hospitals have a price problem. Walk across the street from one hospital to a competitor hospital, and you could easily find yourself facing a $30,000 increase in your medical bills. At one extreme for instance [...]

Charity's investment a prescription for profits for drug maker

jsonline.com — What happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold stock in the glow of enthusiastic news releases about the drug.

Charity's investment a prescription for profits for drug maker

jsonline.com — What happens when a disease-fighting charity dives into venture capitalism? In the first case of its kind, the results include one of the planet's most expensive pills, huge sales projections for a drug company and windfalls for executives who sold stock in the glow of enthusiastic news releases about the drug.

The Best- And Worst- Performing Biotech Stocks, May 10 To May 17

forbes.com — These are the best and worst-performing medical and biotech stocks from May 10 to May 17, 2013. This screen includes biotechnology and medical companies traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq or the American Stock Exchange that had market capitalizations of more than $300 million as of a [...]

For Gay Men, a Fear That Feels Familiar

nytimes.com — At around 4 on a Saturday morning, a time when most of the gay bars in New York have closed and locked their doors, a steady stream of young and middle-aged men, almost all shirtless and some stripped down to their boxer briefs, have found their way down a dark stairwell and into a maze of basement rooms, where the décor can best be described as fallout-shelter chic.