Opinion: Digital twins: Will doubling up help personalize health care?
Two often-cited emerging trends in the health care space are personalized care and remote care….
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Opinion: Ridesharing can help older people be functionally independent in their homes, communities
The United States has experienced a particularly rapid period of expansion of the older adult…
Opinion: Don’t let children under 12 slip through the cracks in the fight against Covid
“Vaxxed and waxed” may be the TikTok sensation of the moment, a rallying cry for…
Opinion: STAT+: Viruses, variants, and the business of health care: Preparing for another wave now and the years ahead
We’re in a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic in which new mutations will have…
Opinion: Applying a pandemic-like response to cancer prevention
In 2020, a year of unimaginable tragedy, an estimated 375,000 people died from Covid-19 infections…
Opinion: Responsible AI: leveraging data and technology to counteract bias
Left unchecked, algorithmic approaches can perpetuate bias in health care. Implementing responsible AI can help…
Opinion: Making hearing aids affordable isn’t enough. Older adults also need hearing care services
When Anne Madison noticed her hearing was declining at age 66, she struggled. She had…
Opinion: With the tobacco settlement, the U.S. missed its moment to fortify public health. We can’t make that mistake with the opioid settlement
States, counties, cities, and tribes have brought thousands of lawsuits seeking to hold players in…
Opinion: STAT+: Human-centered design can boost clinical trial recruitment, retention
By disrupting the clinical trials process, the Covid-19 pandemic has served as a tipping point…
Opinion: The ethical implications of who judges what’s ‘necessary’ when it comes to emergency care
Last month, I rushed to a nearby hospital for emergency care after experiencing pelvic pain…
Opinion: Listen: A longtime glioblastoma survivor on how to keep surviving
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” writer and philosopher Adam Hayden opens…
Opinion: Use systems redesign and the law to prevent medical errors and accidents
This summer, surgeons at University Hospitals in Cleveland transplanted a donor kidney into the wrong…
Opinion: Regulating digital health apps needs user-centered reform
When people seek health information, they expect what they get to be reliable and accurate….
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Opinion: Punishing drug use heightens the stigma of addiction
Our understanding of substance use disorders as chronic but treatable health conditions has come a…
Opinion: STAT+: Stifling biopharma mergers would kill the innovation economy that generates new therapies
The headlines speak of a biotech boom with news of company launches, oversubscribed private financings,…
Opinion: ‘Here be dragons’: Long-term survivors like me can help map the boundaries of cancer
“I hope to see you again in six months!” I call back to my radiation…
Opinion: A close brush with gun violence made me think about how to confront an epidemic during a pandemic
How do we cope with an epidemic in the middle of a pandemic? It’s a…
Opinion: Health care innovation can’t quit now that we are ahead
As health care companies raised a record-breaking $31.6 billion during the first quarter of 2021,…
Opinion: Smoothing the path to fighting food insecurity
Many Americans take good nutrition for granted. They shouldn’t. Hunger is a growing problem in the…
Opinion: Clinical research doesn’t reflect the Alzheimer’s population. That needs to change
New data from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), part of the National Institutes of…
Opinion: The FDA just broke the logjam on interchangeable biologics. Here’s what that decision means
The Food and Drug Administration’s decision on Wednesday to approve a long-acting insulin called Semglee…
Opinion: A double vaccine crisis is endangering millions of children
World health experts met recently to discuss an emerging global health crisis linked to the…
Opinion: With Aduhelm, history can repeat itself by following cancer’s success
The Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Biogen’s Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm has stirred intense controversy,…
Opinion: Pharmacoequity: a new goal for ending disparities in U.S. health care
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought to the public’s attention alarming racial disparities in health. According…
Opinion: Listen: A journalist on what the Vietnam War taught us about addiction
In this week’s episode of the “First Opinion Podcast,” science journalist and author Lauren Aguirre…
Opinion: Cancer killed my mother, brother, and sisters. As the longest-living member of my family, I was determined to understand why
July 10 was a bittersweet and emotional day for me this year, one I had…
Opinion: A solution to the murky legal status of vaccine mandates: rewrite vaccine EUAs
It has been quite a week for vaccine mandates in the United States. The Department…
Opinion: On compounding, the FDA marches to the beat of its own biases
The FDA’s approval of the drug Aduhelm as a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease — despite…
Opinion: The first challenge for ARPA-H should be electronic health record migration
Most new, high-profile initiatives start with something splashy. President Biden’s proposed transformative biomedical agency, the…
Opinion: On menthol cigarettes, social justice theory shouldn’t trump science
This year, 45,000 Black Americans will die from tobacco-related illnesses. The same number will likely…
Opinion: 21 states give rare disease patients a seat at the table. The other 29 need to follow suit
A powerful movement is taking shape in the U.S. rare disease community that could transform…
Opinion: A turning point for children: creating an AIDS-free generation
Forty years after the first AIDS cases were reported, the harsh reality is that deep…
Opinion: Patient advocacy organizations and FDA drug approval: lessons from Aduhelm
In the wake of last month’s controversial Food and Drug Administration approval of Biogen’s Aduhelm,…
Opinion: Medicine needs to see what disability means, looks like, and feels like — in its ranks and in its patients
Licensers, employers, and others have asked about my status: disabled or not disabled? The first…
Opinion: The answer to medical misinformation on social media might be more information
When the surgeon general of the United States speaks, people tend to listen. So Vivek…
Opinion: Proven ways to boost Covid-19 vaccination: mandates plus nudges
The United States is approaching a plateau in vaccination rates at a perilous moment as…
Opinion: ‘When Memory Fades’: Misinformation about Alzheimer’s disease and Aduhelm must be limited
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued a timely and thought-provoking advisory about the serious threat to…
Opinion: Listen: Ezekiel Emanuel on vaccine mandates: ‘Covid might not be done with you’
Are health care workers more obligated than others to get a Covid-19 vaccine? In this…
Opinion: Explaining medical AI is easier said than done
The growing use of artificial intelligence in medicine is paralleled by growing concern among many…
Opinion: Circumventing Covid-19 with better ventilation and air quality
Gathering outdoors has provided people a safer alternative to meeting inside during the Covid-19 pandemic….
Opinion: Lessons learned — and lost — from a Vietnam-era study of addiction
Opioids like heroin, morphine, OxyContin, and fentanyl occupy a spot in the public imagination as…
Opinion: Since the CDC’s mid-May guidance on wearing masks, we’re no longer all in this together
Before there were magnificently effective Covid-19 vaccines, “We’re all in this together” was a crucial…
Opinion: Physicians, mental illness, and the problem with ‘passing’
My patient sits with her back hunched, eyes fixed on the taupe industrial carpet as…
Opinion: Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality
Covid-19 laid bare the long-standing vulnerability of minority and low-income communities in U.S. society and…
Opinion: Listen: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.
Why do more women die in and after childbirth in the U.S. than in any…
Opinion: Vaxxed or axed: To protect patients, every health care worker must be vaccinated
Masks are off. Theaters and indoor dining are back. Life seems to be returning to…
Opinion: Managed care’s role in protecting women from childbirth-related complications
The coronavirus pandemic brought the importance of public health to the forefront of national attention….
Opinion: The decline in Covid-19 preceded vaccines. But we need jabs to finish the job
As coronavirus infections decline in the U.S., it seems appropriate to celebrate the triumph of…
Opinion: With Aduhelm, is history repeating itself with another win for Wall Street and a loss for patients?
When I learned of the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of aducanumab (Aduhelm) for Alzheimer’s…
Opinion: Ignoring mental health infrastructure will be a costly mistake
President Biden’s ambitious infrastructure plan has a glaring omission: It makes no effort to redress…