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Most of the nation’s largest health systems are investing in homeless mitigation programs, including building...
More than 806,000 Americans have died from opioid overdose since the opioid epidemic began in the 1990s. Effective opioid use disorder treatments exist, and ensuring that patients can access care remains essential to tackling the...
Complex healthcare policies are often challenging to implement. That’s a reality states across the country will deal with as new Medicaid work requirements get rolled out next...
Across partisan lines, Americans broadly believe ultraprocessed foods are addictive and harmful, and support policies that could strengthen safeguards and hold the food industry...
Dr. Dhruv Khullar, an associate professor of population health sciences and of medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been selected as an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine (ELHM) Scholar by the National Academy of...
To restore public trust in medical and scientific expertise, we need to engage in discourse about science, communicate its evolving nature and consider values that are important to people beyond their...
Researchers from Weill Cornell Medicine and Boston University School of Public Health have been awarded more than $950,000 from Arnold Ventures to create a “Medicaid Atlas” — a national, data-driven web platform that will...
When behavioral health clinicians at 911 call centers answer mental health and substance abuse calls, it not only reduces arrests, involuntary psychiatric detentions and use of force, but also enables police officers to spend more time...
Family physicians who report feeling burned out are nearly 1.5 times more likely to change practices or stop practicing medicine entirely than their peers who don’t report burnout, a study by Weill Cornell Medicine researchers...
State laws that ban insurance prior authorization for buprenorphine—a leading medication for opioid use disorder—may not help more patients stay in treatment for the recommended minimum of 180 days, Weill Cornell Medicine researchers...







