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Solving The Primary Care Crisis Need Not Be Difficult

Change Will Need To Be Forced by Patients And Their Doctors.

Forever Medicated is the Future of Healthcare

Greed is one of our most destructive traits and no one is more prone to fall prey to its grip than the shareholders of...

Digital Health Should Have a Larger Voice in COVID-19 Detection

Have a voice? Have a smart phone? That’s all that may be needed to test vocal biomarkers, a non-invasive, democratic way to track disease symptoms.

‘They Won’t Help Me’: Sickest Patients Face Insurance Denials Despite Policy Fixes

In 2023, Sheldon Ekirch was diagnosed with small fiber neuropathy, which makes her limbs and muscles feel as if they’re on fire. Specialists recommended a series of infusions to ease her pain, but her insurer refused to pay for the expensive treatment, which it says is “not considered medically necessary.”