Tag: medical care

Dementia is a kind of erasure, a death before death, where the living discount the infirmed long before they’re gone.

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

What nurses’ unions can teach the Democratic Party.

While England’s National Health Service institutes large-scale reform, the country’s understaffed, overcrowded hospitals are in crisis.

Shalon Irving was educated, insured, and well-supported by family and friends. She still became a casualty of missed opportunities and neglect by healthcare providers.

In STAT, Eric Boodman examines delusional parasitosis, a psychiatric condition neither science nor medicine understand much about.

In Texas Monthly, Michael Hall surveys the Texans whose health has dramatically improved after receiving medical coverage through the Affordable Care Act, and the group who labored to get them enrolled.

At Mother Jones, Julia Lurie reports on a rising trend: death by opioid withdrawal in jail. Read about how addict shame and silence, jail short-staffing, scant medical equipment, and a general apathy toward inmates make a deadly combination.

This October 2014 New York Times investigation by C.J. Chivers is about more than just the discovery of old chemical weapons in Iraq—it’s about how shabbily we still treat our troops when they return home. We leave our all-volunteer army with inadequate medical care, emotional trauma, and fragile families. Here are six stories on our […]