Birth Control Access Is Also About Mental Health
With the right to abortion likely to be overturned in many states, access to birth control could be next. The mental health benefits of contraception go far beyond preventing pregnancy.
Broken Medicine
Where Women Fit in the Science of Psychedelics
Psychedelics are being scientifically researched now more than ever. Will scientists repeat past mistakes by leaving women out of the equation?
The Price of Becoming a Doctor
The U.S. has fewer practicing physicians per capita than other wealthy, comparably sized countries, yet the road to becoming a doctor has never been more academically difficult—or costly.
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.
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?