For some, the just-completed 2025-2026 term of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) represents a series of “glancing blows” related to the protection and promotion of the public’s health.
In the state of Louisiana, 32.6 percent of the population identify as Black, while 8.3 percent of the state’s physicians identify as Black. Across the nation, 13.7 percent of the population identify as Black, while 5.7 percent of physicians identify as Black.
On May 22, 2026, the World Health Assembly formally acknowledged Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), consolidating a process that has now placed the country among the very few states to abandon the principal institution…
Iowa is the only state bounded on either side by major rivers, fitting borders for a state whose prosperity is defined by water. The state has long been one of the nation’s most agriculturally productive.
For those of us who work in the psychedelic field, the April 18 press conference announcing several actions to speed up psychedelic research was a watershed moment.
In January 2026, OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health. OpenAI promises ChatGPT Health will help users clarify medical concepts, understand test results, prepare for appointments, and explore healthcare and wellness strategies — all while leveraging user-uploaded health records.
On Oct. 8, 2025, I suffered a perforated bowel. My treatment included a great deal of inpatient and outpatient care over a period of six months. Yet I was lucky — not in experiencing a…
Some state laws allow people with serious, life-threatening illnesses to choose when to die. But few jurisdictions allow people to choose how to experience their deaths.
We live in an age shaped by genetic biotechnology, yet an alarming number of Americans remain unequipped to understand and apply the basic concepts of genes and heredity.
The United States is a global leader in mass incarceration. It holds nearly 2 million Americans in prisons and jails, and it costs a whopping $445 billion annually to do so. About 65 percent of people in American prisons have…
