“No school today!” All of us can remember waking up to these words connected to whatever weather or current event thing and breathing a sigh of relief. A day without learning, without teachers nagging: a day to do whatever you wanted. What are today’s …
Massachusetts is believed to be the first state in the U.S. to require a flu shot for children over the age of 5.
Here’s why the campaign against electronic cigarettes is a deadly mistake.
Much of the conversation around voting in the primaries and general election has focused on the safety and feasibility of mail-in voting, yet we must also protect the millions of Americans who vote in-person during these elections. While we encourage p…
Dr. Joshua Liao explains how to harness the power of social networks to target Covid-19 misinformation alongside other public health measures.
New York takes another step forward in its slow, methodical reopening.
Expectations, particularly when unmet, can be a source of disappointment. Anticipating something to happen a certain way and having it not come to fruition can leave us wanting, waiting, wondering. It can be particularly challenging when we feel respon…
The pandemic has made Canada’s and the UK’s waits for necessary care even worse. Patients are now staring down an epic backlog that could take years to dig out of. And unfortunately, Democrats are planning to import such tragedies to America.
After being kept up all night responding to pages, I was still half-asleep walking into Mr. Jenkins’ room for what I thought would be a routine early morning admission for new-onset seizures. From scanning through the electronic medical record, I was n…
Physician reimbursement increasingly depends upon measures of health care quality. Physicians who fall short on quality measures now face financial penalties. But it might be quality measures, themselves, that are falling short, according to a study co…
