Which country has the world’s best health care system?
So this conversation on The Ezra Klein Show is about which country has the world’s best health system. But it’s also about how innovation in health care actually works,...
Who owns your medical data? Most likely not you.
Do you think you own your own medical data? Your hospital and doctor records, lab and radiology tests, genetic information, even the actual tissue removed during a biopsy or...
Who We Are
The Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy is based in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Under the direction of the department chair,...
Why a Hospital Might Shun a Black Patient
By Amol S. Navathe and Harald Schmidt in New York Times Opinion Doctors like to do good. They also like to make money. Technically, the ways in which physicians are paid...
Why Are Kids With Summer Birthdays More Likely to Get the Flu?
After struggling to schedule a flu shot for his own toddler, host Bapu Jena went down a research rabbit hole. He discovered that the time of year kids are born has an...
Why Do Girls Live Longer Than Boys?
When does the gender gap start? In other words, do girls live longer than boys? The disparity between male and female death rates exists in every age group, from infants...