Medicine & Health Care Industry

Every month seems to bring a trendy new diet or a new fad to try in order to lose weight - but these diets clearly aren’t making us any happier or healthier....

Are you a good boss - or a great one? Get more of the management ideas you want, from the authors you trust, with HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People (Vol. 2). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones....

The key to living a happier, healthier life is inside us. Our gut is almost as important to us as our brain or our heart, yet we know very little about how it works....

Patients enter the medical system with faith that they will receive the best care possible, so when things go wrong, it's a profound and painful breach.... 

The authors of the best-selling Bold and The Rise of Superman explore altered states of consciousness and how they can ignite passion, fuel creativity, and accelerate problem solving....

Getting an accurate diagnosis is the first step toward reclaiming your life from bipolar disorder....

Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools. Still, there are functions critical to the healthcare endeavor that people do much better than machines....

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire....

Since early 2020, the world has experienced a series of catastrophic events - a global pandemic caused by a so-called novel coronavirus; international lockdowns and border closings causing widespread business closures, economic collapse, and massive unemployment....

Cystic fibrosis was once a mysterious disease that killed infants and children. Now it could be the key to healing millions with genetic diseases of every type - from Alzheimer's and Parkinson's to diabetes and sickle cell anemia....

Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa....

As a species we have doubled our life expectancy in just one hundred years. All the advances of modern life - the medical breakthroughs, the public health institutions, the rising standards of living - have given us each about 20,000 extra days on average....

Woran erkennt man eine echte Pandemie? Wann sind Viren gefährlich? Warum eigentlich Masken? Was wissen wir über gentechnische Impfungen? Was geschieht mit unseren Gesundheitsdaten? Wem kann man noch trauen? Wo bleibt die Evidenz in der Corona-Krise? Wo ist die Debatte? Was passiert in Heimen und Kliniken? Werden Gesundheitsbehörden missbraucht? Was ist institutionelle Korruption? Wem nützt die aktuelle Pandemie? Sollen über unsere Gesundheit zukünftig Plutokraten bestimmen?

Die An- und Zugehörigen sind die wichtigsten BegleiterInnen und engsten Vertrauten schwerkranker und sterbender PatientInnen. Im Bewusstsein, dass die gemeinsame Zeit begrenzt ist, wollen Angehörige einen Beitrag leisten und die PatientInnen in der oft leidvollen letzten Lebensphase begleiten. Dann liegt es an den Pflegenden und dem professionellen Betreuungssystem, sie in Achtung ihrer individuellen Bewältigungsstrategien dabei zu unterstützen.

Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her 30s, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas - or the kissing bug disease - is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus. 

Structures of Indifference examines an Indigenous life and death in a Canadian city and what it reveals about the ongoing history of colonialism. At the heart of this story is a 34-hour period in September 2008. During that day and half, Brian Sinclair, a middle-aged, non-Status Anishinaabeg resident of Manitoba's capital city, arrived in the emergency room of the Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg's major downtown hospital, was left untreated and unattended to, and ultimately died from an easily treatable infection. 

Do animals have moral rights? If so, what does this mean? What sorts of mental lives do animals have, and how should we understand welfare? By presenting models for understanding animals' moral status and rights, and examining their mental lives and welfare, David DeGrazia explores the implications for how we should treat animals in connection with our diet, zoos, and research. Animal Rights distinguishes itself by combining intellectual rigor with accessibility, offering a distinct moral voice with a non-polemical tone. 

In I Love My Kids, but I Want My Body Back, Dr Malcolm Linsell shares his patients’ experiences so other women will know what to expect when contemplating plastic surgery. From initial consultation to surgery and beyond, 10 women reveal how their body image issues had a negative impact on their mental and physical health, relationships, and quality of life. Their stories are honest accounts of how they found the courage to change what they didn’t like about their bodies, creating for themselves a calm self-assurance that radiates out to those around them.