Anxiety and depression a major concern as experts point toward social media Feelings oFeelings of isolation and loneliness, as well as associated anxiety and depression, are growing everywhere — and most disturbingly, among our youth. Shocking data released by the ...
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How empathy is revolutionizing 21st century health care This is a time of much political division among people in our society. Can doctors help to heal it? Unfortunately, when it comes to the world of medicine and health care, there ...
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Our broken border is a public health emergency. Here’s how to fix it All the presidential trips to the southern border in the world won’t change the fact that the border is porous, that there have been more than 7.3 ...
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Florida’s vaccine fearmongering threatens US public health As someone who has studied and written books on fear, I was deeply disturbed to hear the Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph Ladapo attach the C word — cancer —to an extremely successful ...
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Dr. Siegel sits down with Dr. Anthony Fauci On disinformation about science: About Florida’s Surgeon General’s misinformation about COVID vaccine: On the crucial need for funding biomedical research: On the need for international guardrails on gain of function research:
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Dr. Siegel sits down with CDC Director Dr. Mandy Cohen On new technologies helping the CDC: On COVID, RSV and flu infections & vaccine uptake: On RSV, flu and COVID peaking this year and vaccinating children: On the logistics of ...
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As a doctor, I favor free-market approaches to drive down drug prices through competition. The Food and Drug Administration finally approved the importation of prescription drugs from Canada to Florida last week, a long awaited move. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ...
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These are the standout breakthroughs in tech that may revolutionize health care The past year was an exciting one for medical advances. Here are five that I think will help revolutionize health care: Artificial technology in the fields of cardiology ...
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Ugly rise in antisemitism after Hamas attack on Israel has deep roots in American history The antisemitism story of 2023 isn’t about freedom of speech or academic freedom; it’s about meanness and divisiveness, flames fanned by the cruelty of social ...
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Bastions of Higher Learning or of Hate? The disturbing testimony by college presidents from Penn, Harvard, and MIT received a lot of attention last week because of their refusal to acknowledge the horrors of Jewish genocide or genocidal rhetoric. Though ...
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