The New York Times
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David Robert Grimes
– Dec 11, 3:00 AM
You all know about how fake news is threatening your democracy. But there's another type of misinformation that's threatening our very health. And this time, people are dying. I'm talking about medical misinformation. Roughly 49 percent of…
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Los Angeles Times
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Peter Ubel
– Dec 6, 3:01 AM
Doctors told my wife there was “very little chance” her breast cancer would return. But five years later, three months after Paula's 51st birthday, I typed “prognosis of metastatic breast cancer” into my browser and…
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The Washington Post
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Christopher Ingraham
– Dec 10, 5:25 AM
One quarter of American adults say they or a family member has put off treatment for a serious medical condition because of cost, according to data released this week by Gallup. That number is the highest it's been in nearly three decades of Gallup…
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STAT
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Michelle Doty
– Dec 10, 1:58 PM
Primary care is the backbone of any high-performing health care system. It works best when primary care providers sit at the center of a patients' health care experience and are aware not only of their medical needs but also of their social needs:…
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The New York Times
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Neil Genzlinger
– Dec 10, 10:37 AM
Dr. Fitzhugh Mullan, who as a physician, administrator and professor spent a lifetime pushing back against what he saw as inequities in the health care system that left minority groups and low-income people underserved, died on Nov. 29 at his home…
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STAT
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Natasha Gilbert
– Dec 11, 1:30 AM
A cacophony of machines, some as big as a dump truck, mix pharmaceutical ingredients, press them into tablets, and fill capsules at a West Virginia factory owned by generic-drug giant Mylan. By the end of each run, the walls, ceilings, floors, and…
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The New York Times
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Jane E. Brody
– Dec 9, 2:00 AM
About a month ago, I took myself off a medication without first contacting the doctor who prescribed it, a step I have often cautioned others never to do. A neurologist had put me on the anticonvulsant drug Keppra as a preventive in case a seizure…
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staff
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Stacey Burling
– Dec 10, 3:00 AM
Fourteen-year-old Dawit “D.J” Debebe, a freshman at Perkiomen Valley High School, had long struggled with allergies, but something new, and much worse, attacked his sinuses in September. He started having headaches so painful he had…
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The Atlantic
– Dec 11, 4:00 AM
It was a pair of feather earrings that helped Ann Miceli get out from underneath strangers' cars. For years, Miceli had worked as an auto mechanic and picked up shifts in her spare time at Indianapolis restaurants. One day, she came across those…
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The New York Times
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Tara Parker-Pope
– Dec 10, 2:00 AM
The Buddhist monk Haemin Sunim remembers the moment he discovered the power of self-care. He was a frustrated graduate student when a trusted friend told him the solution was to “be good to yourself first — then to others.”…
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Jeff Cohn 
