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American Health Care Is Sick—and Its Workers Are, Too

WEBHealth care is a big business, and our system reimburses hospitals and health care workers for caring for the sickest people rather than healthiest ones. This process …

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A History of Transgender Health Care

WEBAn estimated 1.4 million Americans, close to 0.6 percent of the population of the United States, identify as transgender. And, today, the topic of transgender health care is more …

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How Well Can a Genetic Test Predict Your Future Health

WEBMyriad Genetics has launched a commercial polygenic test that estimates breast cancer risk for women. HealthLytix and Dash Genomics have developed a …

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How to Be an Optimal Human

WEBAs Sheldon notes, "obtaining much need satisfaction may be a shorthand route to optimal human being." 2. Set and make efficient progress toward self-concordant goals. On the …

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Health Care Professionals Make Mistakes, and That's Okay

WEBAn estimated 98,000 people die every year as a result of medical errors in hospitals. Despite progress being made to make it easier for medical professionals to …

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Fat Is Not the Problem—Fat Stigma Is

WEBLike the “fact” that fat is a primary driver in metabolic disease. Or that weight loss prolongs life or improves health. None of this is true. Dogma, myths, and prejudices …

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Population Health: How We Can Cure What’s Ailing Health Care

WEBPopulation health is a model for improving patient care quality and experiences while reducing costs. It focuses on all the determinants of health, including …

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What Role Should Race Play in Medicine

WEBIn medicine, race is often portrayed as physiological and innate. This reifies race as a genetic variable. Race, whatever it is, trickles its character into bridging blood …

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How Microbiomes Could Save the Planet

WEBWith antibiotic resistance on the rise, the earth's rivers and water sources suffering from chronic levels of pollution, and industrialized farming damaging …

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Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

WEBThe warmer, wetter and more variable conditions brought by climate change are therefore making it easier to transmit diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, …

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Cholesterol and Controversy: Past, present and Future

WEBJeanne Garbarino is a mother of two young girls, aged 2 and 4. In her other (easier) gig, Jeanne is a postdoc at Rockefeller University in the Laboratory of …

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Mobile Clinics Can Provide Equity in the Defense against COVID-19

WEBThe United States currently has an estimated 2,000 mobile health clinics that receive 6.5 million visits annually; 60 percent of those patients are uninsured and 31 …

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The Emotional Toll of Graduate School

WEBCredit: Getty Images. A recent Harvard study concluded that graduate students are over three times more likely than the average American to experience …

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Mental Illness Is Far More Common Than We Knew

WEBEpidemiologists have long known that at any given time, roughly 20 to 25 percent of the population suffers from a mental illness, which means they experience …

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Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health …

WEBWe need to place people and human psychology central in our thinking. Psychological science offers robust scientific models of mental health and well-being, …

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Addressing Cultural Bias in Medicine

WEBRegardless of ethnicity or culture, all physicians need to be aware of their inherent racial and gender-based biases and how these may impact managing women’s …

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How Do You Distinguish between Religious Fervor and Mental …

WEBGeorge Fox, whose visions inspired him to found the Quaker religion in the 1600s, was accused of being a madman. Credit: Detail of an engraving by S. Allen, …

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Medicine's Power Problem

WEBCredit: Getty Images. In January 2016 a powerful white male doctor sexually assaulted a black female patient at one of the most prestigious academic hospitals in the …

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Racism, Not Genetics, Explains Why Black Americans Are Dying of …

WEBThere is still plenty we don’t know about COVID-19, but one fact is inescapable: African Americans are disproportionately represented among the dead.

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