A Rejected A.L.S. Drug Made Me Rethink the Role of Hope in Medicine An A.L.S. drug rejected by the F.D.A. made me rethink how doctors should give hope to patients.
The Destruction of Gaza’s Health Care Promises Grave Consequences The destruction of Gaza’s health care infrastructure and the justifications used to defend it feel hauntingly familiar.
Texas Abortion Ruling in Kate Cox Case Keeps Doctors Fearful In ruling that a pregnant woman did not qualify for a medical exception to abortion bans, the Texas Supreme Court left doctors without clear guidance on which cases might pass legal muster.
New Drugs Can Fix Teenage Obesity, but Young People Don’t Get Them Pediatricians are hesitating to prescribe medicines like Wegovy, citing their newness and uncertainties around them.
Bellevue Hospital Rushes Patients Into Weight-Loss Surgery New York’s Bellevue Hospital performs thousands of the lucrative surgeries a year, even on Rikers Island prisoners and other inappropriate patients.