Cancer Clinical Trials: The Harsh Reality Of Potentially Lifesaving Care
Our experts explain how the system needs to be restructured to increase access and save lives.
Helping Patients Feel Like Kids Again: The Magic of Children’s Hospitals
For many long-term, young patients, children's hospitals become their entire world and not just the place where they receive treatment.
“I’m Not Dying, But Is That Good Enough?”: Improving Lupus Research
Lupus ABC is the first of its kind public-private partnership with the FDA, allowing researchers and patients to work together on lupus treatment breakthroughs.
Ending Overdose: Making the Antidote More Accessible Than the Drug
Theo Krzywicki explains the signs of an overdose and how to use life-saving devices like Naloxone.
Child Development in Pandemic
Many children born after the start of the pandemic score lower in child development than children born before. Researchers explain possible theories for these children’s slower development scores.
Punishing Covid-Lying Doctors
There’s a growing number of complaints to state medical boards regarding doctors lying about Covid-19 and vaccines. The doctors spreading misinformation are not always reprimanded by state medical boards and are allowed to continue voicing the misinformation. They cite freedom of speech as a defense, but other doctors say licensed professionals have an …
Kids Who’ve Lost Parents to Covid
New estimates show that more than 167,000 children under 18 (a number growing rapidly) have lost a parent or major caregiver to Covid-19. Psychologists say deaths under such circumstances are also much more difficult for survivors to adjust to and will have a major impact on the US. Experts discuss how these “forgotten grievers” are coping and what actions …
How Warfare Destroys Healthcare
According to the Geneva Convention and other agreements, health facilities and workers are supposed to be protected from the violence of war. However, they’re targeted much more often than most people know. A noted expert in the field discusses how this violence happens, its consequences, and how international organizations may be able to turn this trend …
Giving Cash to the Homeless
Homelessness continues to be a stubborn problem despite many well-intentioned programs. A new experimental study finds that giving homeless people thousands of dollars in cash helps get many of them off the streets for good, calling into question many assumptions about the homeless and how they got that way. Experts discuss the new program and its …
Food Insecurity In 2020
An estimated 35 million people were food insecure last year, and the dislocations due to Covid-19 have made it much worse now.
Domestic Abuse and the Pandemic
With hundreds of millions of Americans sheltering at home due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the odds and fear of domestic abuse are rising. The leader of a noted shelter and counseling program discusses the increase.
Crushing Medical Debt
Nearly a quarter of us owe past due medical debt, and hospitals are moving more aggressively to collect. The rise is the result of a tradeoff--Americans have avoided higher health insurance premiums only to be jeopardized by extremely high deductibles and out-of-network costs. Experts explain what unpaid medical debt can mean, how patients can escape its …
