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
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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:
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How immigration rhetoric impacts health
The administration outlined a four-pillar approach to immigration in the Jan. 30 State of the Union, underscoring a commitment to establish a path to citizenship
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Frankenstein at 200
Mary Shelley’s most famous novel, Frankenstein, turns 200 this year. In honor of this momentous anniversary, people across the country are celebrating the novel’s enduring
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A year with PolicyWise
PolicyWise began as a quiet idea, conceptualized in the 2015 strategic planning phase of the Health Policy Program and actualized as a component of the
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Planning for the unknown: How to harness the power of predictive thinking
It’s fun to read articles about science fiction novels that predict the future with sometimes unsettling accuracy. We can look back and wonder how these
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Crowdfunding science: Promise and problems
Crowdfunding is a popular way to raise money for various causes and projects by collecting small donations directly from the public using Internet platforms. As
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Social media’s potential impact on the future of medicine
The ability to open a browser and have the world wide web at our fingertips has interconnected and empowered us to an extent that we
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An outsider’s perspective on a medical data sharing conference
As a recent hire of Baylor College of Medicine Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, I was allowed a unique opportunity to watch high-level
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