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Patient Dies by Suicide After ‘Insurance Issue’ Delayed Medicine for Lung Disease Flare-Ups

By Lauren Sausser and Renuka Rayasam KYLE, Texas — Kenney Blewett was diagnosed with lung disease more than a decade…

2 hours ago

Tom Lawry’s AI in Health Asks the Question Leaders Need to Answer

Tom Lawry’s second edition of AI in Health arrives at precisely the moment health leaders need it. Artificial intelligence is…

3 days ago

A Few Minutes of Intense Exercise Can Change Your Body

We all know that exercise is good for us. It lowers the risk of cardiovascular disease and diabetes, helps control…

3 days ago

Boys Are Risking Their Health to Look Like Influencers, and Almost No One Is Checking

Dalton was 14 when he stopped eating his mother’s cooking. He drank two protein shakes a day, ate plain chicken…

3 days ago

I Woke Up with a Bat on My Head.

I am writing this in the ER. I woke up about 3 o’clock in the morning feeling something crawling across…

1 week ago

Helen Mirren Says She Uses AI Instead of Going to the Doctor. That’s Not the Part That Interests Me.

Helen Mirren said something recently that made me think about a part of medicine we rarely discuss. The 81-year-old actor…

1 week ago

Did We Get Hormone Therapy Wrong?

Last week, a woman with breast cancer sat across from me and asked whether she had caused it. She didn’t…

3 weeks ago

Four Days Before Dolly Parton Died, She Was Talking About the Future

Four days before Dolly Parton died, she was still planning. She was 80. She had written thousands of songs, built…

1 month ago

The Hidden “Friction Tax”

Health innovation loves the language of efficiency: faster, smarter, automated, digital, self-service and AI-enabled. Those words open doors to opportunity…

2 months ago

That Sound Is Making Me Snap

You’re at the dinner table, and someone starts chewing. Nothing loud, nothing unusual. But something inside you snaps. Your heart rate…

3 months ago

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