The Upside of Economic Downturns: Better Childhood Health
For children, the benefits of being born in tough times can outweigh the costs.
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The Supreme Court’s ‘Hobby Lobby’ Ruling Isn’t a Women’s Health Issue
It’s a private health issue. And it affects us all.
How a Fanny Pack Mix-Up Unraveled a Massive Medicare Fraud Scheme
Two secretaries in a doctor’s office have pleaded guilty and a pharmacy owner faces charges in a scam that Medicare allowed to thrive for more than two years.
Doctors Are Not Prescribing the Right Kind of Drugs for the Flu
If you come down with the flu, your doctor is more likely than not to write out a prescription for the wrong type of drug.
Why You Should Be Alarmed About Pediatric Emergency Care in the U.S.
The vast majority of doctors working in emergency care have received only four months of training in pediatrics, and what they learned about treating full-grown adults rarely translates well.
Nancy Scheper-Hughes Responds to Our Profile, ‘The Organ Detective’
The chair of the doctoral program in medical anthropology at the University of California-Berkeley was written about in the July/August issue of Pacific Standard.
Caring for the Condemned: Does It Make Sense to Treat the Mental Health of Someone Facing Execution?
How the new mental health facility for California’s death row inmates reflects our nation’s ongoing ambivalence about the death penalty.
Blackness Ever Blackening: My Lifetime of Depression
How do I explain an existence dominated by the bleakest, darkest moods? And do I even want to?
Is the Quest to Build a Kinder, Gentler Surgeon Misguided?
Surgery is a fundamentally messy and stressful activity. When being a few millimeters off target can be life-changing, a surgeon needs to possess fierce concentration, unrelenting perfectionism, and, above all, staunch self-assurance.