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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
The CDC wants to “give people a break” from wearing masks when severe Covid-19 infections are low, Dr. Rochelle Walensky said.
The CDC plans to significantly loosen mask guidelines Friday, as part of a broader recalibration of the metrics it uses to study Covid-19, the Associated Press reported.
On December 14th, 2021, hospital CEOs met under the guise of The Transformative CEO Healthcare Summit to brainstorm novel ideas in health care and to create “a new world ecosystem.” Themes included how to utilize medical data, how technolog…
