American patients are currently being affected by shortages of various medicines, and earlier this month, U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation to identify the country’s pharmaceutical supply chain weaknesses. But pharmacists have critiques.

Regarding the Supreme Court’s recent decision against affirmative action in university/college admission policies, Kevin Kumashiro says, “Today’s SCOTUS decision is not surprising, but nonetheless a travesty… this decision perpetuates the myth of colorblindness that race no longer matters and that democracy is somehow advanced when we refuse to attend to long-standing and pervasive issues of…

June sea surface temperatures near Ireland and the U.K. are the highest seen in nearly two centuries.

A new meta-analysis of the efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy found that CBT did not outperform other psychotherapies in the treatment of depression. 

In a new primer, researchers describe ‘wellness capitalism”––a model of public health involving the state, employers, and a wellness industry in which worker behaviors are monitored to improve society’s health.

Between 2017 and 2022, PE completed 85 percent of all buyouts of autism service providers––the highest rate of buyouts in any industry. 

A new paper by the Patient-Led Research Collaborative looks in depth at a variety of factors associated with psychiatric outcomes in patients with Long Covid. 

The largest hospital corporation in the country, HCA Healthcare, may be inappropriately transferring patients to hospice care to boost profits and executive compensation. 

Lev Golinkin, author of “A Backpack, a Bear, and Eight Crates of Vodka, a Memoir of Soviet Ukraine”, recently wrote, “Vladimir Putin’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine has already resulted in millions of losers… but there are also winners: the neofascists whom Putin’s war has turned into heroes.”

The mayor of Washington, D.C. announced a $900,000 grant to buy and cancel medical debt for thousands of residents. Because one penny can be spent for every $1 of debt, the city could use that money to cancel $90 million in medical debt.