Over at Terra Sigillata, David Kroll (you may also know him by his old nom-de-blog, Abel Pharmboy), wrote a niceblog post about my profile of research outsourcer Quintiles and its founder and chief executive, Dennis Gillings, in the current issue of Forbes.
The Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt in fact has a nice series of blog posts on this topic which explain some of the quirky factors that have led hospital prices to be so economically unjustifiable.
And earlier this year, a study found that when mice are subjected to stress over a period of time, they have more phosphorylated tau protein deposits in their brains (see this Scientific American blog for a nice synopsis).