On Aug 11, 2026, a rural hospital in Devon, UK, announced the temporary suspension of birth services due to staff shortages. The announcement followed media coverage in the USA, where a third of all r...

Growing up as an undocumented immigrant in North Carolina shaped not only the author’s path to medicine, but also how they understand patients, systems, and belonging. In this reflective essay, they d...

PURPOSE Social support is associated with improved outcomes for people with chronic pain and is an important but understudied component of biopsychosocial pain care. We sought to explore how group med...

People with DNA variant from our evolutionary cousins tend to have more lean muscle mass

Indentifying a large at-risk population for no-shows and using a multi-method approach to addressing the issue can show persistent improvement and could be used in other residency training and communi...

Nigeria, a coastal country in western Africa, was landlocked in the Sahara, among other errors. The department said it had been “hastily altered.”

How does remote work affect isolation and mental health? We drew on five nationally representative surveys of American workers (N = 588,322) conducted from 2011 to 2024, omitting the peak pandemic yea...

Letter urges Congress to require DNA firms to screen orders to prevent AI-aided bioweapons

The World Health Organization (WHO) has validated that Australia is the 30th nation to eliminate Trachoma, a preventable infectious eye disease, which…

What nineteenth-century whaling records reveal about resilience, geography, and ocean conservation

The cover from LIFE in 1998, together with David’s reflection in 2026 David Loxterkamp’s…

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Madison is proving electric buses can run through cold winters, providing a blueprint for zero-emissions transit in other frigid locales.

An estimated 37% of Americans experience moderate to severe loneliness in any given year.[1][1] Loneliness is not a unitary construct, but a multidimensional, subjective experience encompassing distre...

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Social relationships, particularly the quality of intimate partnerships, play a significant role in cardiovascular outcomes and recovery. While most cardiac care focuses on individual patients, couple...

Maybe there is an easy solution to the shortage of PCPs

Better coordination of health and social services is needed to address barriers faced by isolated older adults with cognitive disorders.