Last month, I took on five new patients who were already prescribed stimulants. I had not met any of them in person before. Each came to me with a diagnosis, an active Schedule II prescription, and a ...

Data through September 30, 2026; reading data as of October 4, 2026. Clinicians wrote about AI this quarter more than about anything else: 77 essays by 59 different authors. Readers spent less time ...

A routine EKG at my annual physical was supposed to be uneventful. Instead, it ended my marathon career. This past winter, I was diagnosed with arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC), ...

Medical training hands you a ready-made group of friends. Then it ends, and many women physicians find themselves starting over alone in a new city. Cassie Burton Greenbaum is a pediatric critical ...

America spends nearly a fifth of its economy on health care, yet chronic disease keeps rising and prevention lags. Narinder Singh Parhar, an internist and intensivist with four decades of experience ...

A meaningful portion of my practice involves reconstructive work, not the kind that follows trauma or cancer, but the kind that follows cosmetic procedures that went wrong. Patients come to me after ...

A new scoping review in npj Digital Medicine should be read by every clinician who treats serious mental illness. Diel, Torous, and colleagues reviewed 119 articles on the mental health harms of large ...

This month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) announced a new 173-page toolkit to help states ensure more effective and less costly autism care for children. The launch came as ...

For many physicians, the first truly useful encounter with generative AI has been remarkably mundane. It takes notes. Ambient AI listens to the encounter, organizes the conversation, drafts the ...

The referral came from a mental health clinic. A woman had been putting the hose of a handheld vacuum cleaner into her mouth, pushing the nozzle toward the back of her throat, and turning it on. She ...

Every night on mainstream streaming platforms, I see the same rotation of charity commercials: protect dogs, save Syrian children, shelter American runaways, support childhood cancer care, preserve ...

Health care has never had more data. The industry generates approximately 30 percent of the world’s data volume, and that share continues to grow faster than nearly every other industry. Electronic ...