A senior healthcare administrator recently shared a story that should unsettle anyone who believes our health system exists to promote health.He was called into…
In the recreation room at Eskaton Village in Carmichael, Bonnie Dale, one of the residents, is trying on a virtual reality (VR) headset.Colorful exercise…
Universal health coverage—ensuring everyone can get quality, affordable health care when they need it—is one of the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals.But progress…
Proposed revisions to ‘structural competency’ training requirements threaten health equityFor decades, American medicine addressed some of its most persistent problems — racial, geographic, and…
Use of medications for mental health and behavioral conditions among children and young adults increased steadily for two decades, according to a study published…
Why is it that, compared to most other animals, human babies seem so astonishingly helpless? A foal can stand within hours, and a chimpanzee…
The blockbuster weight loss GLP-1 drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound have revolutionized obesity, the way healthcare workers and patients think about the disease…
Look, if you listen to the experts, there’s a surprising consensus around the idea that we will soon be beyond LLMs.Now, to the lay…
The looming specter of death exerts significant psychological power over the living. Perhaps the most common ways of coping with our persistent death anxiety…
It’s now the top cancer killer of Americans younger than 50Colorectal cancer is a threat not just to older adults but increasingly to young…