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When the No Surprises Act took effect in 2022, it was a rare feat of bipartisan problem-solving. The law was meant to prevent a once all-too-common scenario: An insured patient would seek emergency care, only to face financial disaster because one of the providers involved was outside the patient’s insurance network. (Lisa Jarvis, 7/24)

Every so often, I catch myself wondering, what if I had applied to medical school just two years later? As another class of medical students matriculates, that question has become harder to ignore. (Gauri Gurumurthy, 7/24)

The last American who used an iron lung just died. Her story should be a reminder. (Ashley Alker, 7/24)

In 2006, an Australian-led research team studied 14 children who had all been given the same diagnosis years earlier—some of them decades earlier. Each had suffered a catastrophic seizure within 72 hours of a pertussis (whooping cough) vaccination, all of them before their first birthday, and had gone on to develop severe epilepsy that never improved. No other cause had ever been found. By the standards of the time, they were said to have vaccine encephalopathy, meaning brain injury caused by the vaccine. (Jake Scott, MD, 7/23)

In 2025, there were 216 active drug shortages in the U.S., impacting Americans’ access to lifesaving medications. The resilience of our pharmaceuticals supply chains has been increasingly framed as a national security issue, including by the White House — and rightly so, as Covid-19 magnified the massive costs of a health system ill-equipped to care for its population. (Pooja Yerramilli, 7/24)