More Hospitals Impose Vaccine Mandates for Employees
More and more hospitals and major health systems are requiring employees to get the Covid-19 vaccine, citing rising caseloads fueled by the Delta...
‘Latent’ Tuberculosis? It’s Not That Common, Experts Find
Although experts frequently assert that nearly 1.7 billion people carry dormant tuberculosis worldwide, that figure may be a “gross exaggeration” of the real...
Harlan Lane, Vigorous Advocate for Deaf Culture, Dies at 82
Harlan Lane, a psychologist whose immersion in the world of deaf people led him to become a leading champion of the position that...
Is Crispr the Next Antibiotic?
For decades, scientists and doctors have treated common bacterial and viral infections with fairly blunt therapies. If you developed a sinus infection or...
James Ketchum, Who Conducted LSD Experiments on Soldiers, Dies at 87
While the experiments used popular recreational drugs of the 1960s counterculture — marijuana derivatives, mescaline and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD — many...
What Can the U.S. Health System Learn From Singapore?
SINGAPORE — Singapore’s health care system is sometimes held up as an example of excellence, and as a possible model for what could...
Undercover in a Hospital Bed
A nurse walked in with a loaded syringe. “Can you lift your gown?” she asked.The woman on the gurney held the scratchy emergency...
How to Safeguard Children Against Cyberbullying
The bullying started with some teasing and mean comments, but escalated significantly when Mallory Grossman, 12, a cheerleader and gymnast from New Jersey,...
E-Bikes Are Having Their Moment. They Deserve It.
Many of us are entering a new stage of pandemic grief: adaptation. We are asking ourselves: How do we live with this new...
The Heart of a Swimmer vs. the Heart of a Runner
It turned out, to no one’s surprise, that the athletes, whether runners or swimmers, enjoyed enviable heart health. Their heart rates hovered around...