New Clues Reveal How to Treat Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression affects up to 20 percent of people. A universal treatment could be the key to preventing it.
Broken Medicine
The Long-Term Consequences of the Veterinarian Shortage
Pet owners can't even get appointments to neuter their pets, meaning there are more animals than ever in need of care.
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.
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.