An exhausted mother of four brought in her youngest child, not even 6 months old, to the doctor’s office where I was working for a barking, unending cough. The baby strug...
A treatment that improves Alzheimer’s disease would be a great advance, but Leqembi (lecanemab), which recently received accelerated approval from the FDA, is not that dr...
Negotiating a true peace in the middle of a horrendous war is sometimes a task for only the “feint”-hearted.
This moment in Ukraine’s war to repel Russia’s invaders may b...
Whether President Joe Biden’s misguided plan to forgive some $400 billion in federal student-loan debt goes forward will ultimately be up to the Supreme Court. For now, t...
It’s not every day that the federal government and states as varied as Tennessee and New York find themselves on the same side of a legal dispute, but these were joined b...
Across our country, people are standing up and demanding fair working conditions. These debates are about more than just pay and hours worked. The COVID-19 pandemic highl...
As COVID-19 changed our landscape, K-12 students saw their world shrink to the confines of their computers. Because so many districts in Illinois were unprepared for remo...
I mean, what was I expecting from a chatbot? A formula for world peace? Clues on how to mend a broken heart? A cheesy joke?
Sure, all that, why not?
I wasn't expecting it...
Salman Rushdie, the celebrated Anglo-Indian writer, once declared that the "most precious book" he possessed was his passport.
Rushdie had already published dozens of wo...
When I first started taking care of children and adolescents as a pediatrician in the late 1980s, obesity in childhood was rarely seen as a medical issue. Many colleagues...