One Psychiatrist’s Fantasy Post-Election Prescription: A Giant National Block...
This sign, the one over this big table, this table to which every single person who lives in this country has been invited and perhaps even mandated to attend, would say only one word: “Enough.”
View ArticleChild Psychiatrists: If Kids Are Feeling Anxious After Election, How To Help
If a child is anxious in the wake of the Trump victory, how to help? Suggestions range from civics lessons to simple reassurances of safety.
View ArticleExpert's Coping Tips: The Election Is Over But The Stress Is Not
Sleep disruption, gut trouble, palpitations -- a stress expert sees the election and its aftermath affecting many of her clients, and suggests some coping tips.
View ArticleSunday In Boston: 'Songs For Syria,' Concert To Benefit Medical Care For War...
Join CommonHealth host Carey Goldberg on Sunday, 11/13, at 3 p.m. for an Old South Church concert to benefit medical care for victims of the war in Syria.
View ArticleMass. Planned Parenthood Sees 16-Fold Spike In IUD Demand In Days After Election
But there's actually no need to rush. An Obamacare expert says any birth control coverage changes will likely take months or years.
View ArticleSex Therapist: When Trump Election Worsens Old Pain From Sexual Aggression
"Unless we speak up," Dr. Aline Zoldbrod writes, "we could be incubating a whole new generation of boys and men who think it is fine or funny to talk about women and women's bodies as Donald Trump has."
View Article'Great Deal Of Money At Stake' In Trump's Obamacare Decision, Says Mass....
Massachusetts Health and Hospital Association President Lynn Nicholas discusses fears associated with possible changes to Massachusetts health care as a result of Trump's promise to alter the...
View ArticleFrom Cambridge, A Fast-Spreading 'This I Believe' For Practicing Medicine In...
Thousands of doctors have signed a post-election letter laying out principles that include the tenet that health care is a basic human right, regardless of immigration status.
View ArticleMass. Doctors Are Seeing Effects Of The Election In The Exam Room
One Massachusetts General Hospital doctor says she can't rely on her usual questionnaire to check for depression, because so many patients feel "down, depressed or hopeless." Sleep troubles, anxiety,...
View ArticleWhy Do More Men Get Cancer Than Women? X Chromosome May Hold A Key
Boston-based researchers pinpoint the protective genetic effects of having two X chromosomes as part of the explanation for why men get cancer so much more often than women.
View ArticleOpinion: More Mass. Prisoners Should Have Chance For Compassionate Release, Too
One doctor's relief for former Speaker Sal DiMasi "is tinged with sadness that the very institution he once presided over, the State House, has not allowed other prisoners the same chance."
View ArticleA Psychologist's Guide To Talking Politics — Or Not — This Thanksgiving
The task that lies before many of us at Thanksgiving is not unlike the task that faces us as Americans: How do we connect across painful differences?
View ArticleProuty Garden Supporters Lose Latest Attempt To Stop Demolition
A judge has denied a request for an injunction to halt construction of a new $1 billion clinical building, which will result in the demolition of the half-acre healing garden.
View ArticleMy Patient's Sky-High Blood Pressure And 'The War On Science'
An intelligent patient who stopped her crucial blood pressure medications on her friend's advice raises the broader question: How can such misinformation persist despite the evidence? And what can we...
View ArticleStudy: Mice That Drank Aspartame-Sweetened Water Gained Weight, Gut Enzyme...
The new study offers an explanation for how the controversial sweetener aspartame may lead to -- rather than prevent -- obesity and diabetes.
View ArticleDirector Of White House Drug Control Policies Looks Toward A Trump...
Michael Botticelli, director of the White House Office of Drug Control Policy, believes that fighting opioid addiction has strong bipartisan support.
View ArticleInteractive Website Highlights Extent Of State's Opioid Addiction Epidemic
State health officials say they hope the site will help residents better understand the effects of the epidemic and help policy makers determine how best to deal with it.
View ArticleTrump's Pick For Health Secretary Generates Some Anxiety In Mass.
Tom Price has helped lead the charge to repeal Obamacare, and he supports major changes in programs that cover the elderly and the poor.
View ArticleAfter Soda Tax Proposals Pass Elsewhere, Issue To Be Raised Again In Mass.
Is soda food? Should it be exempt from the state sales tax? Soda tax measures just passed in several cities, and a Massachusetts lawmaker plans to propose one again.
View ArticleDoctor: I Quit AMA Over Its Endorsement Of Trump's Health Secretary Pick
Dr. Carolyn Sax writes: "Price's positions are repugnant to me and to every other physician that I know."
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