Health Care

Eric Topol, a prominent cardiologist, says there has been a steady degradation of the human side of health care – ever since medicine became big business.

The PHRASES initiative is researching how housing, education, health-systems, and business leaders think about public health in their work.

Report by cross-disciplinary team of global experts highlights urgent need for a vaccine that can protect the world against influenza; provides bold, actionable recommendations.

The Sabin-Aspen Vaccine Science & Policy Group convened in 2018 to explore challenges and opportunities to develop a universal influenza vaccine. The group’s recommendations on how to overcome the scientific, financial and organizational barriers to developing a vaccine are synthesized in this report published in July 2019.

An expert on the National Health Service says the reason America doesn’t have universal coverage might be a difference in mindset.

Can doctors teach people how to parent?

A fecal-transplant patient has unexpectedly died just as the FDA is deciding the future of the unconventional procedure.

To protect a population’s health, governments might have to think beyond access to care.

Local empowerment, communication technology, hub-and-spoke models that link primary care providers to specialists, and greater resource commitments are among the strategies bringing more care to historically underserved areas.