Boston is slowly waking from its snowy slumber. Weeks after one of the snowiest storms in the city’s history, drifts still rise several feet along streets and sidewalks as residents pick their way through narrowed passages and over…
The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (“HR1” or “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) significantly amended Medicaid, the federal public health insurance program for low-income people. HR1 has garnered significant attention surrounding new rules like work reporting requirements that…
Iryna Zarutska immigrated to North Carolina in August 2022, fleeing war-torn Ukraine. Exactly three years later, she was taking the subway home from a shift at a local Charlotte pizzeria when, abruptly, Decarlos Brown fatally stabbed…
Health care is consistently ranked among the top concerns of the nation’s voters. A special issue for health care voters is electing candidates who are committed to making high-quality health care accessible and affordable to all.
On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the first international court to recognize the human right to care as an autonomous right.
Psilocybin should be regulated under food law rather than drug law. Doing so would serve public health, individual autonomy, and regulatory coherence.
On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support a federal effort to understand adolescent brain development were later co-opted by other researchers and used to publish “race…
Can states keep IQ testing people sentenced to death until they get the “right” score for execution? What is really at the heart of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on executing people who have an intellectual…
A recent South African court judgment on pseudonymized school examination results has quietly opened a new and unexpected front in global debates about data protection and health research.
In the United States, we typically don’t associate tattooing with medicine — these practices appear more intertwined in other countries.
