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...
Why Is Congress Afraid Of Consciousness?
Over the past couple of years, I’ve noticed an apparent reluctance among the U.S. government agencies that fund neuroscience (e.g., the Defense Advanced Projects Agency and...
Why It's So Hard to Make Healthy Decisions
In his 2018 TEDMED Talk (just released now) David Asch asserts, “Changing someone’s mind with information is hard enough, changing their behavior with information is harder...
Why Mental Bandwidth Could Explain the Psychology Behind Poverty
In her recent paper, “The Psychological Lives of the Poor,” Schofield, a professor in the department of medical ethics and health policy at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine...
Why Schools Are Offering Money, and More, to Get Kids Vaccinated
With the CDC recommendation of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5 to 11, schools across the country are offering incentives to boost vaccination rates...
Why the first, FDA-approved pill with a sensor will be controversial
The first drug with a sensor embedded in a pill that alerts doctors when patients have taken their medications has been given a thumbs-up by the Food and Drug Administration,...