Well before I was a physician, I was an art history major at Bowdoin College. Beneath towering pine trees, I spent much of my…
At first glance, medical school can be simplified to “drinking from a fire hose.” Endless Anki cards, color-coded notes, iPads filled with diagrams.Cramming and…
It has been just six months since President Trump has started his second term as Commander-in-Chief, and there have been profound changes in the…
Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary has taken a personal interest in addressing hormone therapy treatment for menopause.Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty…
The transformation of care delivery is driven by value-based health care (VBHC). In addition to its cost-effectiveness and clinical efficiency, the success of VBHC…
In medicine, one surprisingly heated debate doesn’t get much airtime: Should patients call their doctors by their first name?It pops up often on medical…
You might not see it, but cities are becoming smarter.Traffic lights that think. Buildings that adapt to changing conditions. Public transit that evolves in…
A quarter-size device that tracks the rise and fall of sugar in your blood is the latest source of hope—and hype—in the growing buzz…
In the first multinational study of a proposed change to how obesity is defined—which calls for health factors beyond a person’s height and weight…