Research on Lyme disease has emphasized clinical disease and pathogen microbiology rather than the root cause: the infected tick vectors in the environment, which remain uncontrolled.
Posted: May 28, 2026, 12:00 am
The new Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent progress in some areas but raise concerns about transparency, internal consistency, practical implementation, and ignoring of key scientific evidence.
Posted: May 28, 2026, 12:00 am
Structural competence, a framework encouraging physicians to recognize the broad forces affecting patients, is yet another valuable analytic concept now facing political pushback.
Posted: May 28, 2026, 12:00 am
Vaccine hesitancy is often driven by safety concerns. Clinician recommendations, presumptive communication, and empathy improve uptake; maintaining trust supports future acceptance and community protection.
Posted: May 20, 2026, 12:00 am
Self-insured U.S. employers face skyrocketing health care bills, but they can work together to boost their businesses, raise workers’ pay, and improve the appropriateness of care for their plans’ enrollees.
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
A further digital divide affecting financially, racially, and geographically marginalized groups may develop in the use of health care AI, but some policy approaches could help reduce that gap.
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
Clinicians are rightly expected to disclose their gaps in knowledge or their inability to forecast an outcome. Yet emerging AI tools often cannot, or will not, do the same.
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
There are times when something as apparently mundane as a patient’s small black suitcase full of medical supplies can remind a physician of both the ordinary and the extraordinary of their chosen field.
Posted: May 14, 2026, 12:00 am
The administration recently announced a new payment model to align some Medicare Part B drug payments with international pricing benchmarks. Various factors could affect the model’s scope and impact.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
Many clinical algorithms, including the eGFR test for kidney function, have actually had race baked into them and produce different results for Black patients. Most of us assume these algorithms are based on science, but what if the science is wrong?
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
Today, the covenant between U.S. academic medical centers and society is under strain: corporatization and the mandate to maximize profits threaten the AMC ecosystem and harm medical training.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
A new pilot Medicaid program — GENEROUS — combines centralized pharmaceutical-coverage negotiations with most-favored-nation pricing in an effort to lower drug costs, but it has some limitations.
Posted: May 7, 2026, 12:00 am
A Tennessee bill focused on directed blood donation exemplifies a pattern of efforts to legislate medical practice in ways that override scientific consensus while invoking the language of autonomy.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
There has been substantial interest in the development of GLP-1 drugs and optimism about their public health effects. But some worrisome signals related to disordered eating have emerged.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
Some foreign pharmaceutical plants that export generic drugs to the United States have glaring quality problems that can lead to drug shortages. There is a better way to assure the safety of generic drugs.
Posted: April 30, 2026, 12:00 am
Utah recently rolled out a pilot program involving an AI system that autonomously renews certain prescriptions for people with chronic conditions. This program raises important clinical and legal issues.
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
The Pediatric Research Equity Act was intended to promote the development and testing of prescription drugs for children. But its implementation has been constrained.
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Jack, a retired teacher whose 91 years hadn’t been easy, wanted to leave the hospital forever. With a hospice nurse who was Polish like his cherished grandmother, he could finally take comfort in his care.
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
Consolidation in drug markets could promote availability of innovative treatments. But current antitrust screening is inadequate for detecting anticompetitive behavior, including “killer acquisitions.”
Posted: April 23, 2026, 12:00 am
In the final NOS episode of the season, host Lisa Rosenbaum and her guests elucidate the quiet beauty of good primary care and consider how to induce the U.S. health care system to prize it more highly.
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:00 am
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