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Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Habit de-forming, for health and happiness

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Harvard Center for Health and Happiness (@HarvardCenterHH) tweeted: "All habits need to be re-examined from time to time." This @G...
Sunday, July 25, 2021

1st Black woman to earn a medical degree in the US

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Overlooked No More: Rebecca Lee Crumpler, Who Battled Prejudice in Medicine As the first Black woman to earn a medical degree in the United ...
Sunday, June 6, 2021

What the Covid Rookies Saw

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As the coronavirus tore through New York, a group of medical students graduated early to help the hospitals under siege and found courage th...

Alzheimer’s Drug Poses a Dilemma for the F.D.A.

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If the agency approves it, aducanumab would be the first new Alzheimer’s treatment since 2003. Patients are desperate for new options, but s...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

‘I Had Never Faced the Reality of Death’: A Surgeon Becomes a Patient

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Infected early in the pandemic, Dr. Tomoaki Kato, a renowned transplant surgeon, was soon on life support, and one of the sickest patients i...
Sunday, May 16, 2021

How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life

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How Humanity Gave Itself an Extra Life ...How did this great doubling of the human life span happen? When the history textbooks do touch on ...

America is Failing Its Moral Test on Vaccines

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Vaccinating the world is possible. The United States should lead the way.  The United States is well on its way to protecting Americans from...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021

"a moral and epidemiological failure"

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As Covid Ravages Poorer Countries, Rich Nations Spring Back to Life Despite early vows, the developed world has done little to promote globa...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Vaccine hesitancy

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What can the history of vaccine hesitancy teach us about this pandemic? "Anti-vaccination movements have, at least in the long run, nev...
Sunday, April 25, 2021

Peter Singer interview

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The New Yorker has just published a long interview with on a wide range of issues - it's a condensation of 3 interviews over about 5 hou...
Sunday, April 11, 2021

Medical School Needs a Dose of the Humanities

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The horrors of Covid-19 may give proponents of the liberal arts an unexpected opening. Over the past year, ordinary medical research nearly ...
Monday, March 22, 2021

On Immunity (Eula Biss)

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...Biological and social, our interdependence is a defining feature not only of our civilization, not only of our species and all living spe...
Tuesday, March 16, 2021

"The Lessons of the Pandemic" (1919)

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In 1919, the journal Science published "The Lessons of the Pandemic," assessing what was learned from the Spanish flu. A hundred-p...

CDC identifies public-health guidance from the Trump administration that downplayed pandemic severity

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Federal health officials have identified several controversial pandemic recommendations released during the Donald Trump administration that...

14 Lessons for the Next Pandemic

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We asked doctors, scientists, public health experts and health advocates to take a look back — what would they redo, if they could? One year...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Regional disparities in COVID-19 mortality

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For many statisticians, virologists, and public-health experts, the regional disparities in COVID-19 mortality represent the greatest conund...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020

How the Pandemic Defeated America

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A virus has brought the world's most powerful country to its knees. Read More: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coro...
Monday, June 22, 2020

People Have Stopped Going to the Doctor. Most Seem Just Fine.

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Do Americans really need the amount of treatment that our health care system is used to providing? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinio...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Money, dinners and strip clubs: How pharmaceutical executives bribed doctors to prescribe dangerous fentanyl drugs - 60 Minutes - CBS News

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/opioid-epidemic-pharmaceutical-executives-60-minutes-2020-06-21/ Phil.Oliver@mtsu.edu 👣Solvitur ambulando 💭Sa...
Thursday, June 18, 2020

Tweet by Boston Review on Twitter

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    Boston Review ⁦‪@BostonReview‬⁩ Lillian Wald, a social services pioneer, coined the term "Public Health". She understood that ...