In this episode, Dr. Natalie Lambert talks with Dr. Aaron Carroll about her research on COVID-19 long haulers, who experience symptoms for weeks or months after their initial diagnosis. They discuss COVID topics that are being overlooked in the media, and why online forums can […]

Alzheimer’s is a devastating disease that affects millions of people in the US alone, so there was a lot of excitement about recent news headlines of a drug approved to treat the disease. However, the approval was met with an outcry from several medical experts. […]

We construct life stories to present ourselves to the world, and the narratives we choose matter. A cancer memoir, like this one, tells a life story. So how does cancer figure in mine? Part of the normative cultural frame for cancer memoirs is that cancer […]

Pregnancy comes with a lot of advice concerning everything from how to determine the sex of the baby to how to ease both pregnancy symptoms and the oft-dreaded task of labor and delivery. Most of these stand on little to no evidence, but some are […]

Tasha McAbee (@tasha_mcabee) is an MPH student at Boston University School of Public Health. For over 50 years, Medicare has provided affordable health insurance to hundreds of millions of people. At present, almost 62 million individuals depend on the public program to help cover the […]

That’s the subhead of a new piece from me (gated, unfortunately) at the New England Journal of Medicine about the Supreme Court’s decision in California v. Texas. For a taste: In an angry dissent, Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, accused the majority […]

This is a guest post by Taylor J. Christensen, M.D. (@taylorjayc). Dr. Christensen is an internal medicine physician and health policy researcher with a background in business strategy and health services research. Since any mystery in the healthcare system intrigues me, I’ve been working on […]

This post has good news about my treatment. But in cancer, even good news can pose a challenge. To appreciate how good the news is, let’s go back to April 2021 and the meeting with my surgeon when I learned that my neck cancer was […]

Individuals with higher socioeconomic status may enjoy a longer life, but we haven’t precisely pinned down all the reasons why. Disparities in lung function may help explain the lifespan gap between the poorest and richest Americans, and in today’s episode we cover a recent study […]

Below are recent publications from me and my colleagues from Boston University’s Department of Health Law, Policy and Management. You can find all posts in this series here. July 2021 Edition Blok AC, Anderson E, Swamy L, Mohr DC. Comparing Nurse Leader and Manager Perceptions […]