What Happens When the COVID Empathy Runs Out?
As the pandemic has raged on, underlying problems within the American health care system have been exacerbated, and health care workers are feeling the effects.
Broken Medicine
COVID Medical Costs Leave Families in Dire Straits
The financial fallout of medical bills generated by COVID infections could be the next phase of the country’s pandemic disaster.
Life on the Line: A Q&A with author and journalist Emma Goldberg
Journalist and author Emma Goldberg explores the intensity, frustration, and anguish of the pandemic through the eyes of six rookie doctors in her new book, ‘Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic.’
Is Menopause Causing Sleep Apnea?
After women were excluded from sleep studies for decades, science is starting to catch up—and changing valuable statistics with it.
Disability Doesn’t Need to Be Seen to Be Real
When the writer sustained long-term injuries from a car accident, she discovered the degree to which those with invisible disabilities feel penalized—in large part due to medical gender bias.
Nurses On COVID-19 Frontline Risk It All
For an El Paso nurse, leaving her family to treat patients in New York City, the epicenter of the Coronavirus outbreak, isn’t a choice at all. It’s her calling.
Trump’s Lies are a Hazard to Our Health
Health agencies gutted. Medical research canceled. Gun violence and pandemics dismissed. Is this how our nation is protecting us?
Women Doctors Leaving Medicine Is a Crisis
The cruel cocktail of sexism, pay inequity, and burnout has led to a critical shortage of women physicians. And it could be putting us all at risk.
Ectopic Pregnancies Are Not Viable Pregnancies. Period
It took centuries for medicine to recognize ectopic pregnancies. Now Ohio legislators want to force doctors to "reimplant" them in a woman's uterus—which is medically impossible.
Why Are So Many Women Crowdsourcing Their Healthcare?
Whether they're feeling dismissed by doctors, afraid of tests, or generally confused, women are seeking healthcare information online—and it's leading to an epidemic of misinformation, and a new kind of health crisis.