Opinion | Can Dying Shopping Malls Fix Medical Deserts?
Lewiss is a professor of emergency medicine and a healthcare designer. Del Rios is an associate professor of emergency medicine and a health services researcher. Sinnett is a managing principal and health practice leader at an architecture firm. In Dallas, Texas, people living south of Interstate 30 (I-30) die approximately 20 years before people living […]
Opinion | Would You Switch a Patient’s Medication If You Knew the Cost?
Sloan is a primary care physician and health services researcher. Goss is an associate professor of emergency medicine and clinical informatics. Sinaiko is a researcher and assistant professor of health economics and policy. Put yourself into your patients’ shoes for a moment. Imagine you are visiting your primary care provider (PCP) today to follow up […]
Opinion | How to Prevent Violence Against Healthcare Workers
Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. Jeremy Faust is editor-in-chief of , an emergency medicine physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and a public health researcher. He is author of the Substack column Inside Medicine. Follow In part 2 of this Instagram […]
Opinion | Transitioning Cancer Survivors Away From Oncologic Care
Dinan is an associate professor of epidemiology and an oncology outcomes researcher. October was Breast Cancer Awareness month and the sudden influx of pink in our homes, on our televisions, in our workplaces, and in local businesses reminded us that we still lose far too many of our loved ones to cancer, not only in […]
My Son’s Brain Tumor Was Benign. We Thought We Were In The Clear — But We Were Wrong.
The author’s son consulting with his doctor, Eugene Hwang, associate chief of oncology at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, during treatment in 2020. Courtesy of Adina Ciment I saw the mass on my son’s brain from the small booth in the CT room. It didn’t take much to realize that the golf-ball-sized circle on one […]
Opinion | How the Chemotherapy Shortage Is Affecting Frontline Clinicians
Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. In this exclusive Instagram Live clip, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, and Eleonora Teplinsky, MD, head of Breast and Gynecologic Medical Oncology for Valley-Mount Sinai Comprehensive Cancer Center in Paramus, New Jersey, discuss how the recent […]
Opinion | Who Is to Blame for the Rampant Overtreatment of Peripheral Artery Disease?
Hicks is an associate professor of surgery and a director of clinical outcomes research. The recent New York Times article highlighting inappropriate treatment patterns among patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) has made a serious but much needed impact on patients and physicians alike. The article is complemented by a series of ProPublica articles that […]
Opinion | When Celebrities Talk Mental Health on Social Media
Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. In this video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, sits down with Jessi Gold, MD, MS, an assistant professor in the department of psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and Amanda Calhoun, MD, […]
Opinion | Why Spend U.S. Dollars on Healthcare Abroad?
Emily Hutto is an Associate Video Producer & Editor for MedPage Today. She is based in Manhattan. In this exclusive video, Jeremy Faust, MD, editor-in-chief of MedPage Today, chats with surgeon, author, and public health leader Atul Gawande, MD, MPH about his role as assistant administrator for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International […]
Advice For Black Women, From A Black Woman — It’s Time To Take Care Of Your Heart
Dr. Alanna A. Morris is the Associate Professor of Medicine and the Director of Heart Failure Research at Emory University School of Medicine, and focuses on the impacts race and gender may have on health disparities in cardiovascular disease. She is part of a new educational initiative called Hear Your Heart, which is designed to […]