Tag: medicine

Could shrunken heads from the Amazon hold the key to curing cancer?

“It’s a feeling instead of living as a guinea pig for an opaque set of private interests, and a feeling that I can’t trust an industry that would ever put unsecure devices inside patients in the first place.”

“People are dying after joining a “pro-choice” suicide forum. How much is the site to blame?”

It’s against the law to examine someone without their consent — but one ER doctor’s colleagues do it anyway.

New York midwife Elizabeth Catlin faces 95 individual felony counts at her upcoming trial. For what? For doing her job. Politics and patriarchy make the work of many credentialed, experienced midwives illegal — to the detriment of women and underserved communities.

Just read it. And go wash your hands.

You can understand how the dura mater connects to the arachnoid mater, but that doesn’t mean you understand the mind.

In the face of chronic pain, invisible illness, and medical discrimination, Talia Hibbert turned to tatoos to reclaim ownership of her body.

Alyson Pomerantz reframes her understanding of illness when an allergic reaction turns out to be something else.

How does receiving a donated organ affect a person’s sense of self? Caitlin Dwyer explores the lives of organ donor recipients and their intimate relationships with donor families.

The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.

Recovering addicts are fighting the opioid epidemic.

“I thought, ‘This is it, this is how I’m going to die, right here on the table, and my family will never know what my last few hours were like because no one’s even noticing what’s going on.’”

Health care and medical sponsored content from influencers is growing on Instagram. But is it ethical?

Patrick Burleigh carried an extremely rare genetic mutation, which brought on puberty prematurely.

Steven Bedard, a former field biologist, travels around Bangladesh with a team of public health investigators studying Nipah, a bat-borne virus with the potential to become the next pandemic.

New books about the opioid crisis — “Dopesick,” “Fight for Space” and “American Fix” — have different ideas about who’s to blame and what to do next. Our critic says regulating supply can have deadly consequences, and we need to address users’ pain.

Looks like you’ve got late-stage Patriarchal Medicine Syndrome. I’m so sorry.

Otto Warmbier got arrested in North Korea, sentenced to hard labor, and was eventually sent back to the U.S. — comatose. As with many things North Korean, the why and how is speculative at best.

Unraveling the potential of the double helix could render many of our current medical modalities laughable.

What nurses’ unions can teach the Democratic Party.

The landscape of operating theaters must be terrifying for patients, but it’s becoming normal for me. It’s amazing what you can get used to.

“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.

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.

Should we try to correct disabilities to help the disabled, or make their existence easier for the abled?

A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that chalks every health issue up to weight.

One person searches for the anonymous fruit flavor of the pediatric amoxicillin that so many of us, somehow, came to love.

Physicians in South Korea are working to understand the health issues North Korean defectors face, in preparation for eventual reunification.

Jason Fagone profiles veteran trauma surgeon Dr. Amy Goldberg, who spends her days saving the lives of gunshot victims in Philadelphia, PA.

Pharmaceutical companies catch half a million horseshoe crabs a year to drain their blood for medical use. But is this practice sustainable?