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To Love Medicine Again, Physicians Need to Delegate
How one physician developed a system to deliver better quality care to more patients
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Study: Patients Who Are Confident About Their Care Save Everyone Money
Systems that help patients actively participate in their health care can see significant cost reductions.
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In Online Patient Communities, How Much Sharing Is Too Much?
Done right, social networks can empower patients and democratize health information. But some say they need more protection.
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The Lovely Hill: Where People Live Longer and Happier
In one idyllic community in southern California, Adventists live 4 to 7 years longer -- and more healthily and happily -- than the rest of the country. A look at their diet, lifestyle, and philosophy
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The Problem With DIY Penis Implants
In correctional facilities around the world, prisoners are performing penile implants on themselves and each other -- possibly because they are bored.
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Romania's Underground Cancer Drug Networks
When the free market keeps chemotherapy out reach, sick people turn to friends and the Internet to import medications from countries where they are still available.
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Is the Lecture Dead?
Medical education isn't just about conveying information as efficiently as possible. A lecture, done right, gets to the heart of why a lesson is worth learning.
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When Nurses Become Patients
We don't know how not to be calm and in control.
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Growing Up Gay in 2013
Talking with a 17 year-old about anti-bullying assemblies, daddy-daughter balls, and why theater.
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How the World Gets Sick and Dies
The results of a project to quantify and understand how human illness is changing on a global scale
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Study: People 'Highly' Enjoy Sex, Condom or No
Remember that time you didn't use a condom, and thought it was way better? You were wrong.
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A Case for Shaming Obese People, Tastefully
One bioethicist's modest proposal to combat obesity through socially motivated self-hatred
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'He Didn't Seem Crazy': Where Violence Meets Health Care
Philadelphia's mental health interventions aim to prevent random acts of violence and misguided jail time.
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Fecal Transplantation: 'We Have an Effective Treatment, but It's Too Gross'
Despite new evidence in support of the practice, an "ick factor" would prevent some practitioners from recommending donor feces infusions to patients. Maybe it just needs a nicer name?
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Maxim Shemetov / Reuters When Trees Die, People Die
The curious connection between an invasive beetle that has destroyed over 100 million trees, and subsequent heart disease and pneumonia in human populations nearby
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The Danger of Making Science Political
Scientific evidence, by its very nature, is incapable of having a political bias.
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The Future of Medical Records
Designers dreamed up patient records that can actually help and serve patients.
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How Forks Gave Us Overbites and Pots Saved the Toothless
Historical changes in the ways we cook and eat have dramatically altered public health.
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40 Years After Tuskegee: Reuniting Medical Research and Practice
Guidelines to protect human research subjects impede efficient generation and exchange of knowledge.
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IVF on Steroids: The Dangerous Off-Label Use of 'Dex' During Pregnancy
Fertility clinics across the U.S. are prescribing a medication with a seriously concerning safety profile and no proven benefits.
