Medicine | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/public-health/ The best minds on the most important topics. Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:46:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://issues.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/cropped-issues-favicon-32x32.png Medicine | Issues in Science and Technology https://issues.org/topic/public-health/ 32 32 The Real Returns on NIH’s Intramural Research https://issues.org/nih-intramural-research-irp-real-numbers-alexander-zetina-beale/ https://issues.org/nih-intramural-research-irp-real-numbers-alexander-zetina-beale/#respond Mon, 28 Jul 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46453 The intramural research program at the National Institutes of Health generates benefits far beyond the property lines of its facilities and laboratories.

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]]> https://issues.org/nih-intramural-research-irp-real-numbers-alexander-zetina-beale/feed/ 0 How ADHD Affects Adults https://issues.org/how-adhd-affects-adults/ https://issues.org/how-adhd-affects-adults/#respond Tue, 03 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=46184 Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is the second most prevalent psychiatric disorder in adults. David Goodman explains how ADHD affects adults, the complexities in how it’s diagnosed and treated, and open questions for research in the field.

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]]> https://issues.org/music-and-health-brain/feed/ 0 Music and Health: Dancing Together https://issues.org/music-and-health-dancing-together/ https://issues.org/music-and-health-dancing-together/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:25:28 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=45103 “People always say, ‘Well, if I could only do one art form, what would it be?’ And I always say dance.” —Susan Magsamen 

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]]> https://issues.org/music-and-health-dancing-together/feed/ 0 The Heart Is Not Neutral https://issues.org/scientific-neutrality-transgender-health-care-briggle/ https://issues.org/scientific-neutrality-transgender-health-care-briggle/#respond Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44601 In Plato’s Republic, Socrates argues that justice is harmony and that injustice is faction—the disharmonies that tear society apart. The question, then, is how to hold a political community together. In… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/music-health-arts-healing/feed/ 0 How Federal Science Agencies Innovate in the Public Interest https://issues.org/national-cancer-institute-science-agencies-innovate-aviles/ https://issues.org/national-cancer-institute-science-agencies-innovate-aviles/#respond Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43597 Like many scholars of federal science policy, I awaited the Supreme Court’s ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo with some trepidation. When it came down on June 28, 2024, the decision… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/national-cancer-institute-science-agencies-innovate-aviles/feed/ 0 The Lives of Lewis Thomas https://issues.org/lewis-thomas-fins/ https://issues.org/lewis-thomas-fins/#respond Mon, 25 Nov 2024 16:07:21 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43593 What researching a biography of the celebrated mid-century physician-humanist reveals about technological capability and human frailty.

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]]> https://issues.org/lewis-thomas-fins/feed/ 0 Ending Inequities in Health Care https://issues.org/ending-inequities-health-care-georges-benjamin/ https://issues.org/ending-inequities-health-care-georges-benjamin/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=44062 The United States spends more on health care than any other high-income country, yet we have some of the worst population health outcomes. Our health care system is designed in such a… Read More

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]]> https://issues.org/ending-inequities-health-care-georges-benjamin/feed/ 0 Leaving No-Woman’s-Land https://issues.org/womens-sexual-health-kling-collina-elkins-tanton/ https://issues.org/womens-sexual-health-kling-collina-elkins-tanton/#respond Mon, 04 Nov 2024 12:00:00 +0000 https://issues.org/?p=43602 Illustration by Shonagh Rae.

Lindy: About two years after my surgery for ovarian cancer, I had a moment that I remember with utter clarity: I was standing by the kitchen counter, looking … Read More

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