Image: UnsplashThere will hardly be another period that will transform the healthcare industry as much as 2021 did. The global pandemic forced the sector to adapt and innovate. It also defined how the healthcare industry will change in the next 10 ye...
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Illustration: Leonardo SantamariaEvery doctor is trailed by ghosts. One of my youngest was a 7-year-old boy I’ll call Oliver. He had an upset stomach, and his mother booked an early morning appointment with their family doctor so that he could still...
Finished filling out your March Madness Bracket? Great, then you'll have lots of time to complete your ACA Bracket! What's that you ask? Only the coolest thing ever: the Affordable Care Act Bracket!From the makers of healthcare.gov comes a "...
FOLX, a newly launched digital healthcare service provider, was designed from the ground up to cater to the people most historically neglected and mistreated by the medical profession: the LGBTQIA+ community.Healthcare has long been a minefield for g...
RELATED: 11 Meal Delivery Services to Get You Through Life If Youre Avoiding the StoresThe artist otherwise known as Marshall Mathers donated 400 portions of spaghetti to frontline healthcare workers at Henry Ford and Detroit Receiving hospitals amid...
Illustration: Mark HarrisJere woke up on the morning of October 24, 2020, expecting what Finnish college students callnormi päivä, an ordinary day. It was a Saturday, and he’d slept in. The night before, he had gone drinking by the beach with some...
PHOTOGRAPH: KEVIN SERNABrian Wallach's left hand cramped and he dropped his pen. Ten minutes later, it happened again. Annoying. He'd spent months preparing for this case. He'd joined the US Attorney's Office, a dream job, almost...
Andrew Ibrahim on the bank of the Huron River in the Nichols Arboretum, just downhill from the Michigan Medicine hospital complex in Ann Arbor, Michigan.Photograph: Elliott WoodsThere is no hope of outrunning the suffering that has settled into the h...
Nurse Becky Cherney helps run Operation Face Shield out of a 1976 Bendix Aristocrat camper trailer parked behind a distillery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The project coordinates the production of medical face shields made with 3D printers. “It made me r...
Sometimes Jim would “pet” the sleeping dog onscreen with his finger to rustle her awake.Grant CornettArlyn Anderson grasped her father’s hand and presented him with the choice. “A nursing home would be safer, Dad,” she told him, relaying the doc...
Ben HarriesIn January 2020, Zhanfeng Cui, a professor of chemical engineering at the University of Oxford, was travelling through Heathrow Airport on his way home from China. When he arrived in London, Cui was surprised to find that there were no tem...
The 1883 law was the first of its kind to institute mandatory, government-monitored health insuranceOtto von Bismarck addressing the Reichstag(Peter Horree / Alamy Stock Photo)ByLorraine Boissoneaultsmithsonianmag.comJuly 14, 2017It was 1881, and Ger...