Testing, both for active cases of COVID-19 and for antibodies indicating prior exposure to the disease, will be critical to resuming economic activity. In addition, scientists are racing to develop therapies for people who do get infected -- especially those who become seriously ill. More
U.S. hospitals are in the spotlight for being on the frontline of fighting the pandemic. But in the shadows, debt collection operations continue, often by the same institutions treating coronavirus patients, all while unemployment and uncertainty soar. More
As the coronavirus wreaks havoc with hospital finances, wealthy hospitals sitting on millions or even billions of dollars are in a competitive stampede against near-insolvent hospitals for the same limited pots of financial relief. More
As states gear up to reopen, a poll finds a potential obstacle to controlling the coronavirus: nearly 1 in 10 adults say cost would keep them from seeking help if they thought they were infected. More
COVID-19 has exposed mistrust by African Americans in the health cares as well as health care inequality going back generations for the African American community. More
Because they are most likely to work in acute care, medical/surgical, and ICU nursing, many “FilAms” are on the frontlines of care for Covid-19 patients. More
From Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, how a toxic legacy of poor-quality research, media hype, lax regulatory oversight, and vicious partisanship has come home to roost in the search for effective treatments for COVID-19. More
In "Issues in Science and Technology," Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer explain how our toxic legacy of bad science in medicine has affected coronavirus research. More
What are elective surgeries and why are they so important to hospitals? Vikas Saini and Shannon Brownlee answer questions about elective surgeries in this edition of our new video series, "Lown Hospitals Q&A." More
Politicians pledged to stop providers from charging for video appointments or telephone calls, but some patients are being charged $70 or $80 per virtual visit. More
The inequities of New York City’s health care system are clear at a public hospital in a section of Brooklyn hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. More
Breaking down the flawed logic of "What do we have to lose?" when it comes to untested Covid-19 treatments. More
Congress should work to reexamine the Orphan Drug Act to ensure that it is not being abused for unintended purposes. More
Eager for insight on which patients might deteriorate, hospitals are cramming a validation process that often takes months or years into a couple weeks. More
Eight nurses are the overwhelming majority of employees who remain at Haskell County Community Hospital in Oklahoma. The future of the 25-bed hospital, which has been whittled down to operating only an emergency room since 2019, is increasingly grim. More
Even as frontline emergency room doctors are cheered as national heroes, the private equity-backed firms that employ them are slashing their pay to counteract downturns in corporate revenue. More
The cataclysm of Covid-19 offers an opportunity to reshape health care for the better. The question is: Do we have the collective will to do that? More
When it comes to thyroid cancers, the more you look, the more you find. Scanning technology developed over the past few decades has made it easier to find small thyroid nodules, even when scanning other parts of the body (these are called “incidental findings”). More scanning has led to an increasing number of thyroid cancer […] More
For the coronavirus patients they care for each day at Boston Medical Center, two ICU nurses have become lifelines to beloved grandparents, mothers and fathers, and worried children. More
“Unscrupulous providers” could take advantage of the boom in treatment delivered via voice or video calls. More