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Health care is a matter of life and death. Around the world, structural inequalities across gender and class levy an unacceptable toll.
Access to health care is as much a matter of public policy as it is the size of a person’s pocketbook. Within a doctor’s office, gender and body weight–among many other factors–affect the quality of treatment offered.
Sexual, reproductive, and gender health clinician and writer Lola Pellegrino asks: How do we increase access to and quality of health care across the globe?
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Medication for Intentional Forgetting
There are drugs that can help delete bad memories–but do you really want to lose a piece of yourself?
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Our Inkblots, Ourselves
A history of strange diagnostic images–and their surprising utility
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When a Doctor Prescribes You Whiskey
Illegal drugs are not necessarily dangerous, and dangerous drugs are not necessarily illegal
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How the Worst Blood-Pressure Medication Became the Best Testosterone Blocker
When the label comes off, patients become their own physicians
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