This year, spring is slowly approaching, defying the calendar and human expectations. Sharp, pointy green shoots reach for the light, struggle through cracks in the earth, promising crocuses and daffodils. I hope the purple hyacinths that a friend gave my daughter years ago at an Easter service in upstate New York will reappear near the … Read more
A global health emergency is underway, and we are dangerously unprepared to contain it. Drug-resistant infections are outpacing our medical defenses, and the gap between rapidly evolving superbugs and dwindling antibiotic pipelines is widening, putting millions of lives at risk. Currently, approximately one in six bacterial infections is resistant to antibiotics. A major analysis published … Read more
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law 16 years ago, and its advocates often point to simple metrics as evidence of success. That means approximately 20 million people who were previously uninsured were able to enroll in a health insurance plan. While this number is true, it is incomplete and increasingly misleading. The … Read more