The Good Life Under Lockdown?
AS DIRECTOR OF THE HARVARD STUDY OF ADULT DEVELOPMENT, Robert Waldinger has some good guesses—and 82 years of data—on what makes humans thrive. He has written extensively about the role that family and...
View ArticleA Tale of Two Pandemics
Throughout U.S. history, viral epidemics have disproportionately hurt minority groups. Native Americans died from the 1918 flu pandemic at four times the rate of other groups, and during the H1N1...
View ArticleTelemedicine’s Moment
THE STATISTICS ON TELEHEALTH DURING THE PANDEMIC have told a consistent story—within the first few weeks of the global pandemic, virtual visits more than tripled in the United States and continued to...
View ArticleThe Research Year That Was
HOW WILL LABORATORY RESEARCHERS REMEMBER 2020? “We’ll remember that we answered the call,” says Harry Orf, Senior Vice President for Research at Massachusetts General Hospital. “The work that was done...
View ArticleDo Better by Disabled Patients
MORE THAN ONE IN FOUR AMERICANS live with some form of disability. This leads most of them to have an intimate, but far from untroubled, relationship to the health care system. One persistent source of...
View ArticleDiagnosing the Long Dead
Explorer Ernest Shackleton faced down the Antarctic ice with unmatched physical endurance. Yet he died unexpectedly in his 40s from a heart attack. Writer Edgar Allen Poe invented the detective story...
View ArticleDiagnosis, Ep. 1: Diagnosis, Case by Case
Diagnosis is a series about the past, present and future of a medical cornerstone. It examines all aspects of diagnosis, how it happens, how it can be shaped by history or human bias, and how a...
View ArticleDiagnosis, Ep. 2: A Brief History of Diagnosis
Diagnosis is a series about the past, present and future of a medical cornerstone. It examines all aspects of diagnosis, how it happens, how it can be shaped by history or human bias, and how a...
View ArticleDiagnosis, Ep. 3: When Diagnosis Hurts
Diagnosis is a series about the past, present and future of a medical cornerstone. It examines all aspects of diagnosis, how it happens, how it can be shaped by history or human bias, and how a...
View ArticleDiagnosis, Ep. 4: Diagnosis Through the Bias Filter
Diagnosis is a series about the past, present and future of a medical cornerstone. It examines all aspects of diagnosis, how it happens, how it can be shaped by history or human bias, and how a...
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