November 7, 2023

A Fertility Clinic Failure Destroyed My Chance at Motherhood

(STAT News) – Five years ago, a Pacific Fertility Center clinic in San Francisco suffered a massive storage tank failure that ended my dreams of ever becoming a mother. In all, 4,000 eggs and embryos from 400 people died that … Read More

November 3, 2023

A Modest Proposal to Save Mother’s Lives

(The Atlantic) – On the general-medical and surgical wards, at least one or two patients could always be found walking the long hallways with a walker or cane, a strong and amiable physical therapist keeping pace beside them, casually asking … Read More

October 30, 2023

Suicide Rates Are Up for Gen Z Across the Anglosphere, Especially for Girls

October 27, 2023

The 23andMe Data Breach Reveals the Vulnerabilities of Our Interconnected Data

October 27, 2023

Adam Zivo: So Now We’re Going to Euthanize Drug Addicts?

October 11, 2023

How Good Are AI Health Technologies? We Have No Idea

October 5, 2023

The Dead Internet to Come

October 4, 2023

Without a College Degree, Life in America Is Staggeringly Shorter

October 2, 2023

The New Fertility Technology IVG Is Supposed to Change Everything. Don’t Count on It Yet

October 2, 2023

Babies Need People, Not Devices. Stop Giving Them Screen Time.

September 20, 2023

Value-Based Payments Are Making It Harder to See Your Primary Care Doctor on Short Notice

September 19, 2023

More Than Pink

September 14, 2023

Long Covid Is a New Name for an Old Syndrome

September 13, 2023

Vivitrol, Used to Fight Opioid Misuse, Has a Major Overdose Problem

September 12, 2023

What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?

September 11, 2023

Global Health’s Dirty Secret: Rich Countries Get Good Medicine, the Poor Sometimes Get Poison

September 8, 2023

Paging Dr. Bot

September 7, 2023

Traditional Medicine Provides Health Care to Many Around the Globe–the WHO Is Trying to Make It Safer and More Standardized

September 7, 2023

What a Viral Study Criticizing Cancer Screening Gets Very, Very Wrong

September 6, 2023

I Cured My ARFID with Psilocybin. I Shouldn’t Have Needed to Self-Treat It

August 31, 2023

Preferring Biological Children Is Immoral

August 25, 2023

Surfing, Camping, and Deciding When to Stop: Australia’s Human-Centric Approach to Dialysis

August 24, 2023

Krystal Cascetta, Lindsay Clancy, and the Impossibility of Being a Mom in American Medicine

August 23, 2023

I’m a Doctor Who Specializes in Treating Leprosy. Here’s What I Want You to Know

August 23, 2023

Stephen King: My Books Were Used to Train AI