“By 3:00 PM most days, the emergency room is often exploding with patients. Hospital gurneys stand inches apart. When beds run out,...

Dr. Eileen Appelbaum is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research, Washington, DC; a fellow at the Rutgers...

Drug overdoses in the United States have grown enormously over the past five years. As a consequence, public health officials across the...

The American economy is unique for many reasons – most notably, its failure to regulate education and healthcare. In both sectors, this...

After earning her Master of Science in Nursing at Vanderbilt University in 2016, Caitlyn White began her career as a nurse practitioner...

Gabriel Winant is an historian who studies the social structures of inequality in modern American capitalism and a professor at the...

For most Americans in suburban or urban areas, a trip to the doctor is usually as innocuous as a quick 20-minute car ride. But for 20...

Over the summer, former Cigna executive Wendell Potter made headlines for exposing the misinformation campaigns that corporate health...

Tech companies know too much about us. So, it makes sense that the conversation around digital privacy revolves around keeping our...

The United States is home to the highest rate of maternal mortality in the developed world. In particular, African American women suffer...

Amazon’s Alexa has reshaped how millions of American consumers live and behave at home. We might think of Alexa as that robot we yell at...

The financial state of the U.S. healthcare system is decidedly unhealthy. For a country that prides itself on market-based efficiency,...

The rising cost of healthcare in the United States is old news, with spending projected to increase over five percent annually until...

Physician burnout—not Zika or Ebola—is the next big epidemic threatening our health care system. Doctors in the United States are more...

Adam Hall began exhibiting signs of many mental illnesses, including bipolar disorder, at a young age. After bouncing from one...

It looks like any other government website: Just visually unappealing enough to give the impression of fluorescent lights in a waiting...

In 2015, Malcolm Bird accidentally cut his one-year-old daughter’s finger with a nail clipper and brought her to the local emergency room...

Before this fall, Daraprim wasn’t anything close to a household name, but this anti-parasitic drug is nothing new. The treatment for...

When something in politics sounds too good to be true, that’s probably because it is. But the Colorado Family Planning Initiative might...

I found the so-called “Crisis Pregnancy Center” on Google Maps listed along with Planned Parenthood when I searched for “pregnancy care.”...