Medical Education Needs Rethinking
Under the lingering influence of the 110-year-old Flexner Report, medical schools still minimize social and environmental factors in the understanding and treatment of disease -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Politics Muddied the Waters on a Promising COVID-19 Treatment
On the eve of the Republican Convention, Trump pressured the FDA to allow emergency use of convalescent plasma—before the agency was ready to do so -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
How Politics Muddied the Waters on a Promising COVID-19 Treatment
On the eve of the Republican Convention, Trump pressured the FDA to allow emergency use of convalescent plasma—before the agency was ready to do so -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Women in Science May Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19
They bear a greater proportion of childcare and household responsibilities, making it much harder for them to publish their work and get ahead -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues
Contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs spoke with Arthur Caplan, head of the NYU School of Medicine’s division of medical ethics, about some of the ethical issues that researchers have to consider... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
COVID-19 Vaccine Ethics: Who Gets It First and Other Issues
Contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs spoke with Arthur Caplan, head of the NYU School of Medicine’s division of medical ethics, about some of the ethical issues that researchers have to consider... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Two Decades of Pandemic War Games Failed to Account for Donald Trump
The scenarios foresaw leaky travel bans, a scramble for vaccines and disputes between state and federal leaders, but none could anticipate the current levels of dysfunction in the United States -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Health Care Is Long Overdue for a Social Justice Reckoning
Biases in the system put the lives and well-being of women and minorities at risk -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Health Care Is Long Overdue for a Social Justice Reckoning
Biases in the system put the lives and well-being of women and minorities at risk -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Medical Schools Need to Get Better at Addressing Structural Racism
An incoming medical students points out that the field has always been political, prioritizing some bodies over others -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
We Need More Black Physicians
COVID-19 is threatening an already scarce but essential health care resource -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Get Armed Police Out of Emergency Rooms
And stop letting hospital security guards carry guns; there are better ways to keep patients and staff safe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Medical Students Should Be Taught How to Care for Immigrant Patients
Physicians depend on race-based markers to determine what to look for—but where someone grew up can be more important than their ethnicity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Medical Students Should Be Taught How to Care for Immigrant Patients
Physicians depend on race-based markers to determine what to look for—but where someone grew up can be more important than their ethnicity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Coronavirus Is Attacking the Navajo ‘because We Have Built the Perfect Human for It to Invade’
A traditional Diné storyteller explains how disadvantage and injustice have shaped her people’s encounter with COVID-19 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Rape Kits Are Sitting on Shelves, Untested
Evidence gathered in sexual-assault cases could catch more criminals—if anyone bothered to look -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com