Health Care Archives

The Lede, Issue #6: Political Season Heats Up, Natural Disasters Over the Last Decade, the Cost of Drugs, and More

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Pacific Standard Staff

A female patient diagnosed with "sleep hysteria" wearing a straitjacket, 1888.

Social Justice

‘Medical Symptoms That Medicine Can’t Hear’: A Conversation With Maya Dusenbery

In her new book, Dusenbery provides a comprehensive and much-needed look at how sexism in the medical field is hurting women.

Candace Butera

News in Brief

The Future of Health-Care Technology Is Already in Your Pocket

An app designed at Johns Hopkins is saving patients' lives—and the hospital thousands of dollars.

Kevin Charles Fleming

PS Picks: Molly Osberg’s Grim Picture of Life in America Without Health Insurance

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Ted Scheinman

News in Brief

An Idaho Insurer Announces It Will Offer a Non-Obamacare-Compliant Plan

Many legal experts believe the proposed plans violate the law and insurers that offer them will surely be sued.

Dwyer Gunn

Social Justice

Stopping the Deportation of Immigrants Injured on the Job

Florida is proposing new legislation to stop insurance companies from reporting undocumented people to immigration authorities in order to avoid paying medical bills.

Howard Berkes & Michael Grabell

Social Justice

‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Finally Tackles Medicine’s Gender Bias

With Miranda Bailey's heart attack, sexism in medicine gets much-deserved mainstream treatment.

Maya Dusenbery

Social Justice

Your Pills Are Spying on You

How smart pills and surveillance capitalism threaten civil rights.

David M. Perry

A memorial to those who died from drug overdoses in Huntington, West Virginia.

Social Justice

The DEA Is Trying to Help Rural Americans Get Better Access to Addiction Treatment. Will Its Plan Work?

The DEA's rule change allows other health-care professionals aside from just doctors to prescribe buprenorphine, an effective—but potentially addictive—treatment.

Francie Diep

Economics

These 14 Figures Show the Sources of Soaring Health-Care Costs in America

A new report shows rising costs for prescription drugs and emergency room visits.

Candace Butera