Love, meaningfulness and the power of connection don’t stop just because we get old. Aunt Doris on her 106th birthday. By Barry Eisenberg May 22, 2019 My Aunt Doris recently passed away, exactly two weeks before her birthday. She would have been 107. I have been involved in health care for my entire professional life, as… Read more »
BY JAMIE DUCHARME JUNE 21, 2019 More than a year ago, a pair of Australian researchers published a paper in Scientific Reports to little fanfare. In it, they noted that a surprising number of young people were developing bone growths on the backs of their skulls. The researchers posited that this was due to the amount of time they spent looking… Read more »
Researchers at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, have documented the prevalence of bone spurs at the back of the skull among young adults. (Scientific Reports)By Isaac Stanley-BeckerJune 20 at 4:40 AM Mobile technology has transformed the way we live — how we read, work, communicate, shop and date. But we already know… Read more »
National Library of Medicine/Public DomainBY KATHERINE FOXHALL JUNE 18, 2019 The following is adapted from an excerpt from social and medical historian Katherine Foxhall’s new book, Migraine: A History, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, and out June 18, 2019. In 1936, Alfred Goltman, a physician from Tennessee, reported on one of his cases in the prominent medical… Read more »
BY TARA LAW JUNE 17, 2019 Three years ago this month, on June 27, 2016, the Supreme Court ruled in the biggest abortion case in more than two decades: Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt. In a vote of 5 to 3, the Justices struck down two provisions in a Texas law as unconstitutional because they placed an “undue… Read more »
SARAH E. JORGENSEN, RN | POLICY | NOVEMBER 28, 2018 Corporate health care mentality set up nurses up to be inhuman while holding us to superhuman expectations. We’re told to be caring — but not allowed to do it. It’s time to demand that we stop being abandoned and dismissed by dysfunctional leadership. Early in my nursing career, I… Read more »
DR. SARA R. AHRONHEIM | PHYSICIAN | JUNE 10, 2019 There’s always so much to write about, and there’s never any time. I work too much; it’s become evident recently that I need to cut down. I have started noticing that things affect me much more than they ever did; there are days I hide my tears, and days… Read more »
BY JAMIE DUCHARME JUNE 10, 2019 When a woman is denied access to an abortion, research has shown that she may face threats to her mental or financial well-being. A new study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, suggests her physical health may suffer, too. “There’s a good deal of research that shows, in the short term, having an abortion is much safer than… Read more »
BY MANDY OAKLANDER JUNE 6, 2019 Plastics have for years been used to make nearly everything that surrounds us. But along the way, they escaped the confines of packaging and objects and settled in the environment, the food we eat and the air we breathe. Americans are consuming and breathing in a lot of plastic, finds a… Read more »
BY JAMIE DUCHARME JUNE 3, 2019 It’s a Wednesday evening in Brooklyn, NY, and bars are dead. Tea-candle-dotted tables sit empty, waiting for a happy hour rush that isn’t. But tucked away on a side street, hours before its midnight closing time, a bar called Getaway hums with activity. Metal straws clink against ice and cocktail shakers… Read more »