Fri, Jul 19 2019

One of the keys to health literacy is understanding your role, as a patient, in the care delivery process chain: learning what you need to know to ask questions that can help clarify decisions with your clinical team; how to assess the information…

My latest investigation into the secret life of our data is not a fire drill. Working with an independent security researcher, I found as many as 4 million people have been leaking personal and corporate secrets through Chrome and Firefox. Even a…

Waste and inefficiency in drug development are big problems. They can be hard to spot, especially when you are in the midst of the process. A new way of visualizing clinical trials might help. Some experts believe that as much as 85% of biomedical…

The conservative intelligentsia flocked to the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., this week for the National Conservatism Conference, an opportunity for people who may never have punched a time clock to declare their eternal enmity toward elites and…

What causes uterine fibroids, and why do they (sometimes) cause unusually heavy bleeding? — Kristin Estabrook from Boston Uterine fibroids, known medically as leiomyomas, are benign growths of uterine muscle. Genetics, race, hormones and…

This article was produced in partnership with the Anchorage Daily News, a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica's Big Story newsletter to…

By all accounts the woman, in her late 60s, appeared to have severe dementia. She was largely incoherent. Her short-term memory was terrible. She couldn't focus on questions that medical professionals asked her. But Dr. Malaz Boustani, a professor…

If Roe v. Wade were overturned, the number of abortions would fall in these places. After further state actions, the number of abortions would probably fall in these places, too. Tammi Kromenaker runs the Red River Women's Clinic, the only clinic…

Juul Labs, the nation's leading manufacturer of e-cigarettes, has hired as its medical director a prominent University of California researcher known for his work on the dangers nicotine poses for the adolescent brain. The company said the hire…