Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) in healthcare refer to specific measurable performance metrics assessing the efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of care provided by organizations to understand ...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s health, clear grounds for reparations exist. What happens, then, if our ...

Hunger is a natural part of life, but have you ever stopped to consider why you’re feeling hungry? Understanding the difference between physiological and psychological hunger can help you make more ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 2, 1973. UC President Charles Hitch said last week the Federal Budget is “more bad news” for the university. Hitch, speaking at the monthly meeting of the ...

On February 1, 2025 the Inside Medicine Substack reported that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) ordered agency scientists to withdraw research manuscripts under consideration ...

In his essay “Resistance to Civil Government, or Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau writes:“Can there not be a government in which the majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but ...

In the quiet uncertainty of an emergency department, a woman in gut-wrenching pain arrives, unable to catch a breath. Within a matter of minutes, Dr. Sally Graglia completes a point-of-care ultrasound ...

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, 2024 is set to be yet another hottest year ever recorded. The same group of researchers also concluded that Earth’s average global ...

Sipping my coffee and enjoying this spectacular view.The sun stretching its golden arms while I soak in the waterfront view from the dining table.

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design inside, scaling the outer edge of my left ankle. His fine lines and tasteful detail ...

When the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa refused to heed the call from the international community to end its racist, immoral and illegal treatment of Black South Africans, the global ...

The social determinants of health are the underlying factors that influence our health outside of the doctor’s office, including the environments in which we work, live, and play. And the science is ...