Second Opinion

Can a blood test detect 50 cancers and save lives—or is this another expensive medical promise without proof?

I support community clinics, medical research, and taxing billionaires—so why am I voting against three California propositions that claim to support those same goals?

When no one speaks up, silence can become part of the culture of care.

Need to send your doctor a message? A new study suggests how you write it—not just what you say—may affect whether your doctor responds.

It's not the sniffles clogging our ERs. It's a hospital system with nowhere left to put people.

An A-minus isn't a crisis. But for some high achievers, it can feel like one. When does striving for excellence become something harmful?

American teens are anxious, exhausted, and getting too little sleep. Are phones really the whole problem—or should we also be looking at our culture of achievement?

They were conscientious objectors who refused to fight in World War II. So they found another way to serve: they offered their own bodies for dangerous medical experiments.

For 100 years we've been trying to kill mosquitoes. What if the real problem was us?

We've spent decades trying to kill mosquitoes. So why do they seem to be getting better at living with us?