With the assistance of emergency Medicaid, Bernal de Villalta, 30, who came to Long Island in 2009 from El Salvador, has had dialysis three times a week for the past two years. But because Bernal de Villalta is an undocumented immigrant she does not qualify for health insurance that would help pay for a costly kidney transplant
Quick Read
Wearable Devices to Prevent SunburnJune 16, 2015 |
Could new technology succeed where years of public health messages, doctor warnings and nagging moms have failed — to keep us safe from too much sun?
Quick Read
The computer brains inside autonomous vehicles will be fast enough to make life-or-death decisions. But should they? A bioethicist weighs in on a thorny problem of the dawning robot age
Quick Read
Our Jeffrey Kahn joined other expert witnesses for a hearing of the subcommittee on research and technology to discuss the science and ethics of the use of human gene-editing technologies
Quick Read
Sticker Shock in For-Profit HospitalsJune 16, 2015 |
Editorial: Two reports published this month provide fresh evidence of the hard-to-justify high prices that many hospitals charge for common procedures. The prices drive up premiums for many privately insured patients and can be ruinously expensive for those who are uninsured or inadequately insured or who go to a hospital or doctor outside their insurance network
Quick Read
MirrorMe3D, founded by New York plastic surgeon Carrie Stern, takes 3D scans of faces—and other parts of the human anatomy people like to augment—and prints them out in varying sizes
Quick Read
The FDA has not yet made a final decision. But by lending their heft to a campaign for the drug, the feminists won the support of much of the nonprofit women’s health community in Washington, galvanizing it with the charge that a refusal to approve the drug would be sexist
Quick Read
Want to sign up for a massive human experiment? Too late. You’re already a lab rat. There was no ethics approval or informed consent. You weren’t asked, you never signed up, and now there’s no easy way to opt out
Quick Read
