Public Health

If Gambling Is a Damaging Addiction, States Should Cease Lotteries

States run lotteries, offering winners multimillions, and then turning around and offering gambling rehab programs is a contradictory process.

12 months ago

Your Next Mammogram Could Be a Game Changer: AI Sees What We Miss

A new study published in Radiology, a journal of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), suggests artificial intelligence (AI) could…

12 months ago

Feeling Blue? Maybe There’s an App for That: Exploring Telehealth for Depression

Telehealth video medicine became popular in my oncology clinic during the COVID-19 pandemic.

1 year ago

Reversing the Doctor Drain

How innovative partnership models may help slow the erosion of medical care in America’s rural and Indigenous tribal areas

1 year ago

Yes, You Can Change That Medical Consent Form

Consent forms are a usual part of many businesses, and in medicine, they are standard procedures, but that doesn’t mean…

1 year ago

Strategies to Slash My Dementia Risk: My Journey to Promote Brain Health

A growing body of evidence suggests that the fight against dementia should begin earlier, before the brain changes that facilitate…

1 year ago

Smoke, Dip, or Pouch It and Suffer the Horrific Consequences?

Tobacco products have been proven to cause various cancers, but new nicotine-containing products are questionable, too.

1 year ago

An Ageing Population Underlines Need for New Strategies to Improve Uptake of Adult Pneumococcal Immunisation

The following article is based on expert discussions taken from the MSD Pneumococcal Vaccination Policy Roundtable that took place in…

1 year ago

Health Equity & Inclusion in Action: Laying the Foundations for a Fairer, Healthier Future

The Health Equity and Inclusion in Action report, commissioned by the biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences and developed by the global think tank…

1 year ago

A Physician Travels to South Asia Seeking Enduring Lessons From the Eradication of Smallpox

[Republished with permission from KFF Health News. Authored by Céline Gounder.] Smallpox was certified eradicated in 1980, but I first…

1 year ago

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