Over the last few years, we have seen an increasing number of women with substance use disorders in our clinic. We are very excited that Dr. Edwin Raffi from the Center for Women’s Mental Health will speaking about treating this vulnerable population at our upcoming one day course in Women’s Mental Health in Boston on… Read More »
How do you improve the health of an entire town? That was the question facing the former fishing port of Fleetwood, in Lancashire. It’s a place where lives have been blighted by illness and people were dying younger. So, in 2016, a local GP began to lead efforts to turn things around, helping people take… Read More »
Lawmakers return to Washington this week with, what else, health care on their minds and their agenda. In the coming weeks, there are two issues lawmakers want to address, if they can overcome the sizable political and special-interest obstacles to doing so: surprise medical bills and drug prices. Tackling surprise medical bills has seemed like… Read More »
This story also ran on NPR. This story can be republished for free (details). Emory University medical fellow Dr. Nicole Herbst was shocked when she saw three patients who came in with abnormal results from chest CT scans they had bought on Groupon. Yes, Groupon — the online coupon mecca that also sells discounted fitness… Read More »