Second Opinion

She understood why she needed to go to the hospital. Her doctor hadn’t understood why she couldn’t go.

What if one of the missing pieces in preventing teen suicide isn't another therapy session, but simply making sure someone keeps checking in?

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.