Helping the most vulnerable: Kids in foster care
What can be done to improve the child welfare system and help make the lives of foster care children better?
Read more
health policy
Health care policy and partnerships: What has changed since COVID-19?
What partnerships will be most important moving forward post pandemic? How should we do things differently?
Read more
Think globally, act locally: Caring for families with neural tube defects
Digital age connectivity is enabling policy change, embodied in new clinical care guidelines for people living with spina bifida.
Read more
Eradication with vaccination? It’s worth a shot
My stomach sank as I read the following email from my residency program: “Four measles cases confirmed in Harris County. Please reference the attached triage
Read more
Do no harm: A moral imperative to be the change in healthcare
“Can you please come see Mr. S in room six? His nose is bleeding, and he is very angry,” the nurse calls. Calls like this
Read more
The high costs of diabetes medications
You can do a lot of things with $1,700 – buy a high-end MacBook with all of the bells and whistles, go on a shopping
Read more
Big, bad medical bills: Time for a legal fix?
In a classic Ry Cooder song, marriage is described as sufficient to transform one ‘Big Bad Bill’ into a ‘Sweet William’. But big, bad medical
Read more
The EpiPen shortage: A perfect pharmaceutical storm
Any parent of school-aged children knows summer is not all about vacations and fun. One of the big back-to-school activities is the well-child check and
Read more
How the medical community can encourage gun safety
Ninety-six Americans are shot and killed every day. Five years ago, National Gun Violence Awareness Day began to honor one of those lives cut tragically
Read more
Medical care: More than just the doctor and patient
How does medical care get delivered? If portrayals of doctor visits in the movies and on television tell us anything, it’s as simple as this:
Read more