In movie lore, zombies are people who have come back to life to reek havoc and kill innocent people. Now there is a proposal to bring Vioxx (rofecoxib) back to […]
US healthcare
Scott O Lilienfeld: The role of psychiatrists in the age of Trump
The rise of Trump has ignited fierce debate about the Goldwater rule, but what, if anything, would a formal diagnosis of Trump tell us? […]
Christian Pean: Curing the American plague of violence
Treating violence as a health issue seems to work, so why aren’t we embracing this tactic? […]
Anna Lembke: The opioid epidemic is a symptom of our faltering healthcare system
An infusion of money to “fight the epidemic” is going to have little impact […]
Kishore Jayakumar: Is it time to expand immunisation mandates in the US?
Though vaccines are among the most successful public health interventions in history, childhood vaccine refusal among parents is increasingly prevalent in the United States. Vaccine refusal increases the risk of […]
The collapse of Trumpcare and the rise of single payer
Single payer bills signal a new era in American healthcare politics […]
Diana Zuckerman: How to kill Obamacare—death by 1,000 cuts?
As a presidential candidate and as president of the US, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that “Obamacare is imploding.” For months, the Trump Administration has tried to make that prediction come […]
William Cayley: Focus on investing in health, not on cost containment
No one wants a bankrupt healthcare system, but we need to care for those who are sick or in need […]
Doctors need to speak up against the use of mental illness as an insult
Arash Javanbakht and Aislinn Williams Over recent months ongoing shakeups in the White House staff have generated a lot of attention from the news media. However, over the summer there was […]
David Hemenway: Why has it been so difficult to change US gun policy?
Polls continually show a majority of Americans support reasonable gun policies, and yet the US has not been able to address its firearms problem […]