On June 24, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ending the constitutional right to abortion and jeopardizing abortion access in more than 20 states. Hours after the ruling, state governments and legislatures began implementing abortion trigger bans to outlaw the procedure while pro-abortion rights clinics and activists started suing state governments to block the bans. The result has been […]

The U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade has led to new questions about privacy protections for health information about an individual’s use of reproductive services such as abortion. Employer plans that cover these services, and that are now adding a travel benefit for employees to access this care, might create a paper trail of claims information or reimbursement […]

Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, said Tuesday that a new omicron subvariant on the rise is something to take seriously but should not be a cause for panic.   The subvariant, known as BA.5, is now the majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States. It is even more highly transmissible than earlier variants of the virus, and has an increased ability […]

BY KIM BELLARD I saw a great quote by Alfred North Whitehead the other day: “It is the business of the future to be dangerous.” Now, I was a math major many years ago, so I know who Alfred North Whitehead was: the coauthor (with Bertrand Russell) of the Principia Mathematica, a landmark, three-volume treatise that proved – in excruciating […]

Dive Brief: The digital health sector appears to be cooling down, with startups in the once-hot industry raising less money and undergoing fewer mergers and acquisitions in the first half of the year. Digital health public exits also ground to a halt, with zero startups entering the public markets. According to a new Rock Health report, the digital health sector […]

Multidisciplinary design, architecture, and engineering firm Page (Washington, D.C.) has acquired interdisciplinary design firm EYP (Albany, N.Y.). The firms will operate as one organization to expand services and geographic reach. It will have more than 1,300 employees across the U.S., Latin America, and the Middle East.

Dan Weissmann Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen. Click here for a transcript of the episode. Dr. Thomas Fisher, an emergency room physician at a hospital on Chicago’s South Side, has written “The Emergency,” an up-close chronicle of the covid-19 pandemic’s first year. It also tells the story of his journey as a doctor: how his upbringing on the South […]

As the landscape architect for a sensory garden at Elks Children’s Eye Clinic in Portland, Ore., Mayer/Reed (Portland) considered ways to create a welcoming environment for children whose sight may be limited. The firm studied design opportunities for the new facility, which is adjacent to the Casey Eye Institute on the Oregon Health & Science University campus. That process included […]

A new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study revealed a common herbicide chemical linked to cancer was detected in the majority of urine samples the public health agency reviewed. The CDC’s National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a program designed to assess the nutritional health of American adults and children, released data last month showing that more than […]

The U.S. has had a faltering response to the monkeypox outbreak, with confirmed cases jumping to 700 in the two months since outbreaks were first detected and clinics across the country struggling to meet the demand for effective vaccines. Some public health experts and patients say more needs to be done and warn that mistakes made during the COVID-19 pandemic […]