As medical students who will inherit and treat the health consequences of climate change, we are witnessing how it reshapes the physical and emotional landscapes of our generation. These fears are ...

Read together, the 95 KevinMD posts on board certification say one thing consistently: physicians value passing the boards once and have spent a dozen years arguing that the cycle of recertification ...

Read together, the 198 KevinMD posts on diabetes and obesity say one thing consistently: telling patients to eat less and move more did not work, and the doctors writing have spent fifteen years ...

Read together, the 544 KevinMD posts on aging and dementia, by geriatricians, other doctors, nurses, and families, say one thing consistently: the system that cares for older people was built for ...

Read together, the 741 KevinMD posts on children’s health say one thing consistently: the pediatricians and other doctors writing spend most of their time talking parents down from fear and the system ...

I have never asked medicine to promise me a cure. I have asked it to help me stay alive long enough to come home to my children. My medical record is not subtle. Recurrent pancreatitis led to sepsis ...

You drive home after a long shift and see someone standing at the roadside. It turns out to be a sign. ≈ had that happen more than once, and her first thought was that something was wrong with her.

Roughly half of American children receive their health care through Medicaid or CHIP. These programs were legislated to cover them, and the choice has been made (repeatedly, across decades and both ...

With 66 percent of U.S. adults, some 131 million people, now taking prescription drugs, and with Medicare drug spending running into the hundreds of billions, it is worth asking how the pharmaceutical ...

“Your tests are normal.” “There is nothing dangerous going on.” “This is good news.” “You are going to be OK.” We usually say these things with good intentions. We want to reduce fear, provide ...

Throughout pregnancy, clinicians carefully monitor a woman’s health. Vitals are obtained, laboratory testing is performed, growth is monitored, and complications are identified. Then, a new life is ...

His treatment included an ileostomy and the placement of a stoma bag. He underwent surgical removal of the tumor, and his stoma was closed in May 2026. He began his first cycle of chemotherapy on ...