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Insight outside: harnessing nature’s secrets

Jeff Karp, bioengineer and Associate Professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, illuminates the art and science of developing medical tools, treatments, and technologies from solutions …

Let’s quit abusing drug users

Carl Hart, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at Columbia University, offers a provocative, evidence-based view of addiction and discusses how it should impact drug policy.

Exposing the hubris in knowing

Elizabeth “Betsy” Nabel, the President of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School, shares a personally revealing story that shows how the limits of …

Deconstructing our perception of perfection

Danielle Ofri, attending physician at Bellevue Hospital and Associate Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, makes the powerful, against-the-grain case that medical professionals fundamentally …

Where to train the world’s doctors? Cuba.

American journalist and Havana resident Gail Reed spotlights a Cuban medical school that trains doctors from low-income countries who pledge to serve communities like their own.

What can Iran teach us about the kidney shortage?

Sigrid Fry-Revere, Founder and President of the Center for Ethical Solutions, discusses organ transplantation policy and provides an intriguing, if controversial living organ donation solution from abroad.

Confront harm and prevent medical casualties

Patricia Horoho, Lieutenant General in the U.S. Army and the first woman and first nurse to serve as the Army’s Surgeon General, reveals how healthcare can cause harm …

Why do our brains get addicted?

Neuroscientist Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the NIH, applies a lens of addiction to the obesity epidemic.

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