Peter Ubel, Contributor

Antibiotic prescribing is rampant, even among asymptomatic patients.

Income inequality kills. As demonstrated by an important study comparing health in the US and UK: 1. People with low incomes had significantly more health problems than those with high incomes. 2. Differences in health across income was significantly g…

Pharmaceutical lobbying rose dramatically before the passage of Obamacare, and appears to be rising again, amidst concerns that the government will address rising drug prices.

The goal of healthcare coverage is not to reduce healthcare spending, but to protect people from financial harm and, ideally, to improve their health.

Discount insulin may not benefit you. So who does it benefit? Pharmaceutical companies.

When asked to imitate people from different occupations, children changed the pitch of their voices, revealing stereotypical beliefs of the gender of a person occupying a traditionally male or female role.

When a university campus banned the sale of sugar-sweetened beverages in its cafeterias, people drank less Coke and Pepsi. And they got thinner, too!

Research on whether gamification increases participation in physical activity leaves one to wonder: How can we make exercise more fun?

Methods of enhanced interrogation – sleep deprivation, ill-fitted clothing, intrusive physical exams – create an experience for prisoners that closely resembles that of many hospitalized patients.

Even with employer-based health insurance, pregnant women can expect to pay thousands of dollars out-of-pocket to cover the cost of maternity care.