General Health

When Science Advances, Why Does Society Doubt Its Own Progress?

Science has never offered humanity greater possibilities for preventing, diagnosing and treating disease. Yet public confidence in the institutions advancing…

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She Needed an EpiPen. But First, an Urgent Care Asked Her To Pay.

By Phil Galewitz; Photos by Eric Harkleroad - Reprinted with permission from Kaiser Health News Stephanie Rowell was standing on her…

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What Does Your Refrigerator Say About Your Health?

Open your refrigerator and take a good look inside. You may be looking at one of the most important determinants…

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She Started Forgetting Words at 54. Her First Thought Was Dementia.

She had started rehearsing. Before each meeting, she told me, she ran through what she planned to say, sometimes twice,…

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18 Million People Now Live With Anorexia or Bulimia, and the Numbers Keep Climbing

A teenage girl watches a video of a slim young woman in workout clothes showing everything she ate that day.…

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Vaccination: The Journey To Protection Shouldn’t Be The Hard Part

We have spent decades developing vaccines that can protect people from serious disease. They have undergone rigorous clinical trials, been…

1 week ago

Meeting Climate Goals Will Depend on the Machines That Run Industry

Last month in New York, world leaders met at the UN Climate Summit during the UN General Assembly, and Climate…

3 weeks ago

Rethinking vaccine costs: how the “more expensive” vaccine can actually save health systems millions

An exclusive article authored by Ignacio Olivera, Eduardo Lopez, Carlos Grau Pérez, Luis Lazarov and Hugo Dibarboure. A newly published…

4 weeks 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…

1 month ago

I’ve Treated Breast Cancer for Decades. Here’s What I’ve Learned About Radiation

Early in my career, a woman asked me something I couldn’t answer well. Her surgeon had removed the cancer completely.…

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