America’s top medical schools still hire by race
The scalpel doesn’t care what ethnicity holds it. The diagnosis doesn’t change depending on your cultural background
Medicine
Monday
Tuesday
Are antidepressants making Americans violent?
America has been taking her medicine scrupulously for decades. Instead of making her better, it might well be making everything far worse
Tuesday
We shouldn’t downplay the risks of ADHD medication
Surely there are other – better – ways to help a child who is struggling at school than to accept medication as an easy option
Wednesday
The lessons of ancient Rome’s dangerous doctors
‘I died of a surfeit of doctors,’ read one Roman funerary inscription. But where did this surfeit come from?
Tuesday
Investigation: Catholic medical school pushes hormone therapy for minors
Georgetown lecture slides describe puberty blockers as ‘fully reversible’
Monday
The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health
Some are unctuously eager to respect non-Western premises about medicine
Tuesday
Are patients losing access to their autoimmune drugs post-Roe?
Tackling a viral rumor
Tuesday
The trans war on the body
Trans rights are changing what it is to be human
