Doctor Unions Are Good for Your Health
To move between hospital buildings and see her patients, Dr. Carmen Kilpatrick had to be pushed around in a wheelchair by her colleagues. Kilpatrick, a second-year psychiatry resident at UC…
Mistrust On Medical Services Becoming Narratives: Chief Justice Of India DY Chandrachud
CJI Chandrachud said violent confrontation can have worst impact on doctors. (FILE)New Delhi: Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud on Sunday said that due to an overburdened healthcare system, coupled…
Health Care Bias Is Dangerous. But So Are ‘Fairness’ Algorithms
In fact, what we have described here is actually a best case scenario, in which it is possible to enforce fairness by making simple changes that affect performance for each…
What ‘Getting Curious’ Taught Jonathan Van Ness About … Everything
When the podcast Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness first dropped in 2015, it was with an episode titled, “What’s the Difference Between Sunni and Shia Muslims and Why Don’t…
Budget 2023: Centre Must Promote Research, Give Incentives To Boost Investment- Pharma Sector
The pharma sector generates massive trade surplus. (Representational)New Delhi: The government is likely to retain its focus on the pharmaceutical sector in the upcoming Union Budget as India emerges from…
Would You Sell One of Your Kidneys?
When we were teenagers, my brother and I received kidney transplants six days apart. It wasn’t supposed to be that way. He, two years older, was scheduled to receive my…
Digital Health Tools Need a New Benchmark
During the Covid-19 pandemic, digital health technologies transformed the way that many of us received health care, supercharging the uptake of digital tools such as telehealth platforms, mobile symptom trackers,…
How Smartwatches Could Help Detect Emerging Health Problems Using AI
Skin-like electronics combined with Artificial Intelligence are being developed by researchers in order to detect potential emergent health concerns. The study was published in the journal Matter with the title…
Midwives Are an Overlooked Climate Solution
What’s keeping midwives from making a larger dent in the fight against climate change? To start with, there are not enough of them. The United Nations reports that there’s a…
Amazon Launches Virtual Healthcare Platform In US For Common Ailments
Shares in Amazon were up about 1% in trading before the bell.Amazon.com Inc on Tuesday launched Amazon clinic, a virtual platform where users can connect with healthcare providers to help…