March 24, 2023
(Undark) – Today, scientists’ understanding of the human microbiome is vastly incomplete, based primarily on samples collected from the U.S. and Europe. A 2022 study analyzing the world’s three largest genomic repositories found that more than 70 percent of human … Read More
March 23, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Physician-trainees at Mass General Brigham are attempting to unionize. If they succeed, the union would be the largest of its kind in the country with more than 2,500 members, joining the estimated 15% of U.S. medical … Read More
March 23, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Sixty years ago, in March 1963, the U.S. Surgeon General granted licenses to two drug companies to produce the first measles vaccines. It had taken nine years of research before a vaccine was ready for release … Read More
March 22, 2023
(STAT News) – That promise reassured both me and my family that it was safe to move forward with my donation. The day before my surgery, I signed the forms identifying me as a living kidney donor that would go … Read More
March 15, 2023
(STAT News) – Chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT can hold fun conversations across many topics. But when it comes to providing people with accurate health information, they need help from humans. As tech enthusiasts who research and develop AI-driven chatbots in … Read More
March 2, 2023
(Wall Street Journal) – Twenty-one states have legalized recreational marijuana use since 2012, and teen mental-health problems have been on the rise in the same period. The connection between the two, which I’ve observed in my work as a psychoanalyst, … Read More
March 2, 2023
(STAT News) – More than two years after a federal rule required hospitals to post their actual prices, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has finally responded to public pressure about the failure of many hospitals to be transparent … Read More
February 28, 2023
(JAMA Viewpoint) – In the Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, the US Supreme Court abandoned 50 years of precedent, ruling that there is no constitutional right to abortion. The post–Roe v Wade reproductive justice landscape is now dramatically … Read More
February 20, 2023
(STAT New) – A dozen years ago, as a young doctor with a background in emergency medicine, I felt prepared to handle disaster response situations. But I was totally unprepared for the constant exposure to widespread suffering and death that … Read More
February 14, 2023
(STAT News) – The notion that people will regularly use computers to diagnose their own illnesses has been discussed for decades. Of course, millions of people try to do that today, consulting Dr. Google, though often with little success. Given … Read More
