On February 22nd, Governor Greg Abbott of Texas turned essential medical treatments for transgender adolescents into a crime, ordering the state to investigate them as “child abuse.” The following day, a patient came to one of us (Dr. Morse…
Category: Policy
Biden Signs $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill With $14 Billion For Ukraine Aid—Here’s What’s In It
In addition to funding day-to-day government operations, the bill includes measures targeting student aid, violence against women and e-cigarette regulation.
Hawaii Becomes Last State To Drop Mask Mandate As Covid Infections Fall
After nearly two years, Hawaii plans to drop its indoor mask mandate, though Gov. David Ige warned residents that the state was prepared to bring back the mandate in the even of a new Covid surge.
Want to improve telehealth? Ask people with disabilities.
Telehealth is the best option for millions of Americans, but more Americans need to be included. Three-hundred-and-thirty U.S. health organizations have called on Congress to act swiftly in renewing waivers that allow for the provision of telehealth se…
Please stop giving awards specifically to women in the workplace
Hear me out. I am a first-generation, working female in my family. My mom was your typical 70s woman that stayed home with her kids and didn’t have, or even want, a career. Or so she said. The laws surrounding job discrimination and sex-based wage disp…
What Data About Vaccination Means For Controlling The Covid Pandemic
Biodefense expert Dr. Mark Kortepeter discusses the role that vaccines have played in controlling the pandemic, and what the latest data suggests about ideal vaccination policies.
Family medicine and the fight for the soul of health care
Timothy Hoff is a professor of management and author of Searching for the Family Doctor: Primary Care on the Brink. Copyright 2022. Published with permission of Johns Hopkins University Press. There is a fight going on for the soul of not only American…
We need improved policies, not platitudes, for racialized and gendered frontline workers
Since the spring of 2020, COVID-19 has disrupted our social and economic order. One of the unraveling consequences of the historic changes wrought by the pandemic is the grossly uneven gendered and racialized nature of those shouldering the burden. Acr…
Don’t Dam The Telehealth Flood
Telehealth is a proven way to improve patient access to care and to lower overall health costs. It’s time to make it a permanent fixture of our healthcare system.
Inhaler nonadherence and social determinants of health
Cities and urban environments tend to have large gaps in health care accessibility and correspondent health care disparities. Despite the existence of localized public health infrastructure, such infrastructure tends to be fragmented and cannot fully e…
