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Firdaus Kharas Talking Condoms Make Safe Sex Campaigns Acceptable in Conservative Countries
Using animation and humor to get important public health messages on the air
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Eric Gaillard/Reuters When There Are Chemotherapy Shortages, Rationing Is Up to Doctors
Ethics for and against giving in-demand cancer treatments to children first
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Elaine Thompson/AP Alcohol Education Is Not Rape Apology
It’s not victim-blaming to educate women—and men—on alcohol’s connection to sexual assault.
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David L. Chapman/Arsenal Pulp Press Hunks: How Ripped Became an Ideal
A historic look at images of masculinity
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Charles Rex Arbogast/AP Why Are Hospital CEOs Paid So Well?
There is little correlation between CEO income and hospital quality—but there is between salary and excessive marketing.
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Pichi Chuang/Reuters The CDC and the Shutdown: Potentially a Big Deal
Like the military, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention protects the United States from serious threats. What do the furloughs mean for infectious outbreaks?
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Stefan Wermuth/Reuters How Primary Care Can Handle 15 Million Newly Insured Patients
People have always needed excellent primary care. And patients may fret about how the millions of uninsured people projected to sign up for coverage in 2014 will affect access to care. Here's what must happen.
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Evan Vucci/AP How Police Officers Are (or Aren’t) Trained in Mental Health
Requirements vary across the U.S., but experts say training is necessary and helpful.
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Courtesy Zubin Damania The Doctor-Rapper and CEO Who Intend to Fix Healthcare
Starting in Las Vegas
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meddygarnet/flickr Here Come the Condom Police
Monitoring gay bathhouses and mandating condoms for porn actors are quick fixes that won't replace the long, hard work of HIV prevention.
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Lucy Nicholson/Reuters How Fracking Is Bad for Our Bodies
With the spread of hydraulic fracturing come untoward social and somatic health effects.
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Kai Pfaffenbach/Reuters The Problem of Prolonging Life
As my mother and I wrestled with the idea of turning off my father's pacemaker, I learned about the moral, medical, and legal obstacles to letting someone die.
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jessiejacobson/flickr U.S. Women Are Dying Younger Than Their Mothers, and No One Knows Why
While advancements in medicine and technology have prolonged life expectancy and decreased premature deaths overall, women in parts of the country have been left behind.
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Jacquelyn Martin/ AP Dark Days for Medical Research
Between the sequester and the shutdown, repeated hits to research funding may have serious consequences for scientific advancement.
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AP For Heart Health, Snake Oil
Researchers in the field of "extreme biology" believe pythons' unique physiology could help humans with cardiovascular illnesses.
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Some Americans Say They Support the Affordable Care Act but Not Obamacare
The idea that ignorance is the root of much disagreement—that if Americans understood the healthcare law, more would support it—seems condescending, but not invalid.
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Wikimedia Commons Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?
Students at UCSF can soon get course credit for editing medical Wikipedia articles, joining a group of medical professionals and others dedicated to improving available health information online.
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John Gress/REUTERS All the Ways to Get Out of Obamacare
It turns out there is an enormous array of exemptions to the individual mandate.
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Lisa Poole/ Reuters An Official Statement on Environmental Toxins and Pregnancy
This week the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists issued a strong warning about the risks of environmental toxins to pregnant women and fetuses.
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Mike Lacon/flickr Lowering Health Care Costs Is Hard Because Every Patient Is Unique
The value-based healthcare movement's effort to cut costs and improve healthcare outcomes doesn't realize that patients' conditions are rarely homogenous.
