The Evergreen Profits of Insulin
December 13, 2019
—Jeffrey A. Bennett Angie Summers had health insurance. But it didn’t begin to cover the astronomical cost of the two insulins that she injected every day. The price, after insurance,… READ MORE
Category: Health and Medicine
Mental Health Awareness: An eBook Special
October 10, 2019
In recognition of World Mental Health Day on October 10, we’re sharing a selection of books that can help educate any reader about important topics in mental health
What’s wrong with those anti-vaxxers? They’re just like the rest of us
August 30, 2019
—Jennifer A. Reich
NYU Press author attempts to demystify anti-vaxxers–their choices and motives–and talks about how there may be a little anti-vaxxer in everyone.
Fathers also want to ‘have it all,’ study says
July 11, 2019
—Gayle Kaufman
The author of Fixing Parental Leave discusses the importance of parental leave and not just maternity leave. Fathers deserve time to bond with their kids too!
Investigating Reproductive Injustice
July 1, 2019
Black women are more likely to give birth prematurely than any other group of women in the US—Dána-Ain Davis explores this reproductive injustice shrouded in racism
(Cr)outsourcing the person: Personalized medicine in the digital era
January 16, 2018
—Barbara Prainsack
Digital and web-based technologies are helping patients and their families, friends, and carers to do things faster or better or more effectively, but the costs often remain invisible.
Big Biomedicine
December 6, 2016
—Joseph E. Davis
The time is ripe for a redirection of biomedical research funding and a larger re-balancing between reductionistic “fixing” and holistic “healing,” requiring a deeper understanding of the “old-fashioned” social and environmental determinants of health and illness and a renewed commitment to addressing them.
Like rubella, will the public get behind a Zika vaccine?
August 4, 2016
—Jennifer Reich
Developing a Zika vaccine poses scientific and medical challenges as well as social and ethical issues with a twist because of what this vaccine will do and who it is aimed at.