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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
BY HEATHER BANKOS 9:22 AM EDT This spring, 31-year-old Heather Bankos donated her uterus through a research program at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, becoming about the 70th woman to do so worldwide. Bankos does not know the identity of her recipient, [...]