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Making Advanced Cancer a Chronic Disease

“CANCER SPREAD” HAS SUCH dreadful implications. Having helped individuals with cancer for over three decades, discussions around metastases still shake me. Fortunately, age-adjusted death rates are...

Theranos’ Biggest Crime is Casting Doubt on Consumer Diagnostics

One casualty of the Theranos scandal is that the idea of convenient, more accessible, diagnostic blood tests. We need great, consumer-focused, diagnostic care that lead to definitive answers around patients’ risk of disease and the ability to stay on top of chronic conditions.

Health Care and Its Deadly Biases Toward Women 

In 2020 in the U.S., the maternal mortality rate for non-Hispanic Black women was 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births, 2.9 times the rate for non-Hispanic White women.

Did Healthcare Just Miss its Bus?

As we rapidly approach the three-year mark of the Covid pandemic, healthcare finds itself, in many ways, far the worse for wear, not having benefited financially in any way from the pandemic.