Category: Forbes

Why Stress Makes It Harder To Figure Out What You’re Feeling

Stress can affect how well we read our own emotions.

How Doctors Are Expanding Access To The Earned Income Tax Credit For Families With Kids

How some pediatricians are helping families apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit, and perhaps improving their children’s health.

Amazon’s Clinics Join U.S. Employer Push Into Worksite Healthcare

Amazon’s worksite health clinics join one-third of large U.S. employers already offering a medical clinic to their employees, Mercer data shows.

Conspiracy Theories And Dubious Health Advice, Courtesy Of Alex Jones

Conspiracy theorist and far-right radio host Alex Jones has just been banned from multiple media platforms for his hate speech. He also runs a highly profitable side business selling dietary supplements. I took a look at a couple of his more outrageous…

Bristol Diabetes Spin-Out Acquired By Novo Nordisk For $800M

Bristol University spin-out Ziylo has been acquired by Danish pharmaceutical Novo Nordisk for over $800 million. Novo Nordisk now has full rights to Ziylo’s glucose binding molecule platform to develop glucose responsive insulins. The deal is one of th…

Alex Jones’ Top 10 Health Claims And Why They Are Wrong

Now that Alex Jones has been booted off Facebook, YouTube, Apple, and Spotify and his Twitter account has been locked for 7 days, here is what you will miss.

NYU Makes Medical School Tuition Free

In a surprise announcement today, the New York University School of Medicine said that it will pay the tuition of all its students regardless of merit or financial need, becoming the first major American medical school to do so.

Increasing Numbers of Americans Want Single Payer, But Is That What They Want?

Single payer healthcare is gaining in popularity in recent polls conducted in the U.S. As an approach to healthcare, however, single payer is less translatable to the U.S. context than hybrid systems on the European continent.

What May Have Really Killed Prince & Why We Should Care

Loneliness is an affliction most people are familiar with, but not so many of us are aware that loneliness is lethal and a public health crisis. A crisis that may be disproportionately affecting those isolated by distance and even by the very digital t…

The Agonizingly Slow Progress Against The Cancer That Killed Aretha Franklin

Our slow progress against pancreatic cancer is representative of the war on cancer writ large. Focus in on pancreatic cancer, and you see that there has been progress for patients with some subtypes for the disease. There are real reasons for hope that…