PETER UBEL, MD|POLICY | JULY 3, 2019 Jill Ladkin was already having a terrible autumn. It began with a seizure that put her in the hospital with what seemed like scores of unfamiliar physicians attending to her state of health. The brain scan revealed a [...]
HANS DUVEFELT, MD|PHYSICIAN | JULY 9, 2019 My first job after residency was in a small mill town in central Maine. I joined two fifty something family doctors, one of whom was the son of the former town doctor. I felt like I [...]
Love, meaningfulness and the power of connection don’t stop just because we get old. Aunt Doris on her 106th birthday. Aunt Doris on her 106th birthday.CreditCreditAmy Eisenberg By Barry Eisenberg May 22, 2019 My Aunt Doris recently passed away, exactly two weeks [...]
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 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]