This is our bottom line: The ways we give should and will evolve to enable us to achieve greater impact to improve the health and health care of all Americans.
Having come from the U.S. and observed the way the health care system works there, we definitely felt that we could do something in India.
Obama achieved something in his first year with health care that successive presidents have been unable to achieve.
America's health care system is in crisis precisely because we systematically neglect wellness and prevention.
From wearable sensors to video game treatments, everyone seems to be looking to technology as the next wave of innovation for mental health care.
I'm by no means condemning prescription medicine for mental health. I've seen it save a lot of people's lives.
In the African-American community, we struggle with a lot of health problems that have a lot to do with our diet.
When women earn more, families are stronger, and children have better access to quality health care and education.
Illegal immigration costs taxpayers $45 billion a year in health care, education, and incarceration expenses.
I’m out of health potions. Retreat! Retreat! Give me some of your health potions!” I screamed. “I don’t have any potions. Run, bitch, run,” Brody squealed. The red ran out on my health and my assassin was transported, stripped of everything...
A lot of people believe that mental illness does not affect our children within the school system. But the truth is that a lot of bullying stems from untreated or poorly treated mental and behavioral health problems.
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissib...
...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, th...
The most blatant forms of denialism are rarely malevolent; they combine decency, a fear of change, and the misguided desire to do good - for our health, our families, and the world. That is why so many physicians dismiss the idea that a patient's rac...
Mama grizzlies mate later than other bears. They have two cubs instead of four. They wait four years - about twice as long as other bears - between having cubs. And after they're pregnant, if winter is hard or their health is not good or the food sup...
Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great effect. We may know that eating fruits and vegetables is good for us, but the preponderance of the s...
Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by...
I believe, unlike people that are totally free-market, laissez-faire fundamentalists, that there is an important role that the government can play - one, in providing public goods, whether it's education, health care, or other things, and two, superv...
I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.
Health care is a service that we all need, but just like food and shelter, it is best provided through voluntary and mutually beneficial market exchanges.
