October 2, 2023 • Around the nation, health care staff proceed to grapple with their trade’s large carbon footprint. In Pittsburgh, doctors fashioned Clinicians for Climate Action to handle the issue. October 4, 2023 • A physician decided to cease speaking to patients about weight, and focus on health instead. But the new weight-loss medication pressured her to rethink the means to assist patients without feeding into stigma. October 23, 2023 • Laura Bray could not watch her 9-year-old’s leukemia go untreated. She began campaigning to fix a damaged system and get sufferers the therapies they want within the face of drug shortages.

The Cuero Regional Health System, a small hospital in Cuero, Texas, serves a inhabitants of twenty-two,000. Its officials say Medicare Advantage plans often deny care primarily based on the insurers’ internal determinations about the sort of care required, overruling the physicians handling the circumstances. When the hospital …