2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (542+ words) Pandya is a general pediatrician in Philadelphia. The father cradled his newborn daughter as we reviewed routine infant care. Her mother, still recovering from childbirth, joined by video from home. He held his daughter with the tentative confidence and unmistakable…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (527+ words) Wallace is an epidemiologist, researcher, and a professor at University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. The White House fact sheet accompanying President Trump’s executive order, which he signed Monday, makes a claim worth examining: that most peer nations…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (282+ words) Tsioulias is a second-year medical student at Georgetown University School of Medicine. The nurses had warned me not to expect much. They hadn’t seen her smile in weeks, they said, sounding as though they’d already given up. Her room was…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (350+ words) By J. Todd R. Lawrence and Madison A. Kesler When we were children, it wasn’t unusual to hear about a kid wiping out on a bike, skateboard, or roller skates and coming home with scrapes, bruises, and occasionally broken bones that needed to…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (274+ words) I am always vigilant for bleeding — but today I am also uneasy. My patient has made it clear that she does not consent to blood products, even in an emergency. She will not risk receiving blood from a donor who…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (586+ words) I am a plastic surgeon who rebuilds faces after car accidents, helps cancer patients breathe, and restores infants’ ability to eat and smile. Yet what draws the most notice is my work transforming masculine features into feminine ones, and vice…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (495+ words) For this story, Boodman obtained email chains between Pfizer and health officials and conducted interviews with 10 state health departments, eight local health agencies, six health system pharmacists, and former and current CDC officials, as well as infectious disease specialists, OB-GYNs,…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (173+ words) WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved teplizumab, a type 1 diabetes drug developed by Sanofi, for children aged 8 and older with stage 3 diabetes. The drug was selected to go through a speedy review program launched last year by…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (344+ words) Independent experts told STAT that the new research provides important evidence for childhood environment being a key driver of individual differences in brain organization. But some cautioned leaping from this evidence to conclusions that interventions to improve sleep or remove…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (565+ words) The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has released a recommended vaccine schedule for pregnant people, one that diverges from the advice currently offered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ACOG is recommending four vaccines be routinely administered…...