Making transplants more equitable
New regulations can help remove bias.
Policy & Practice
Birth control has access challenges, too
A close-up look at the Biden administration’s partner in expanding contraceptive access
Teens need more sleep. Why don’t we start school later?
Sleep deprivation in teens is linked to mental health struggles, poor grades, traffic accidents, and more.
Tackling problem gambling from inside the casino
The GameSense program “meets people where they’re at, and where they’re gambling.”
Living with diabetes and without health insurance
Access to affordable health care can mean the difference between managing diabetes well or suffering its most debilitating outcomes.
Our next pandemic’s playbook
Monica Gandhi on why our next pandemic response must center harm reduction, equality, and justice.
A program treating gun violence as a contagion loses funding
Using a public health approach, a Memphis program slowly earned the trust of residents. It lost its funding anyway.
Nearly six decades in, Medicaid is still going strong
Medicaid continues to innovate, bringing health care to a larger and more diverse group of people than ever before.
The path to universal access
South Africa is committed to single-payer health care, but achieving it won’t be easy.
California takes a major step toward universal coverage
California is about to give insurance coverage to every low-income resident, documented or not.