From COVID to wildfires to vehicle smog, the air we breathe is dangerous, and we need a major public health campaign to educate people and provide masks—along with structural changes to address root causes.

Doctors have been some of the worst spreaders of medical misinformation in recent years. Why do most of them get away with it?

The Surgeon General, in recent comments about ‘Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation,’ gives individual solutions to a systemic problem that requires large-scale policy solutions.

In his new book, physician writer Ricardo Nuila uses the safety-net hospital where he works as a model for healthcare reform. It’s true that healthcare ought to be public, universal, and government funded, but to build a truly just healthcare system and a healthy society, we must reject the underlying logic of scarcity built into the healthcare system and the idea that healthcare is simply a transaction or a fair deal.

Why is there so much distrust, mis- and disinformation, and conspiracy theory about medicine in the U.S.? Blame a system that nobody can trust to have their best interests at heart.

Noise levels have pervasive and insidious effects on the health of our bodies as well as our communities.

Hospital workers acting as predatory debt collectors is the inevitable result of mixing profit and healthcare.

As a nation in pain, we are sold pills for everything. What if we tried a different approach to ease our pain?