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Health & Wellness

A Comprehensive Examination of Primary Care Disparities in California: Navigating the Abyss

By SUHANA MISHRA Residing in the often overlooked San Joaquin Valley, I’ve personally felt the impact of the shortage of primary care physician...

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Halo, Heresy, and Health Care

By KIM BELLARD If you are of a certain age – say, mine, that is to say, a Baby Boomer – last week’s announcement that Microsoft was going to re...

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The Nobel Prize’s Amazing Track Record in Immunology

By MIKE MAGEE With the announcement of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine last week, the American Association of Immunologists (AAI...

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Let a Thousand DNA Flowers Bloom

By KIM BELLARD When I saw a headline about “DNA flowers,” I was nonplused. I mean: aren’t all flowers made out of DNA, like every living thing...

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Concierge Care for all: What would it look like?

By MATTHEW HOLT A few weeks back I wrote an article on what’s wrong with primary care and how we should fix it. The tl:dr version was to give e...

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AAAA (the four A)

By JACOB REIDER I haven’t blogged this yet, which kinda surprises me, since I find myself describing it often.  Let’s start with an overview. We ca...

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What A Digital Health Doc Learned Recertifying His Boards

By JEAN LUC NEPTUNE I recently got the good news that I passed the board recertification exam for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM...

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Epic’s “Emmie” Chatbot Enhances the Patient Voice – For Their *Real* Customers

By MICHAEL MILLENSON A Rock Health write-up of this year’s Epic Users Group Meeting captured the artificial intelligence vibe with a play on th...

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Telehealth safe harbor: a call to action for health plans

By AMI PAREKH A little-noticed telehealth safe harbor provision tucked inside the One Big Beautiful Bill was a significant milestone in virtual...

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Labcorp, Blue Shield and my $34.95 co pay (part 5)

By MATTHEW HOLT I have been on a quest to try to understand why I am being charged $34.95 by Labcorp for some lab tests that I think should be free...

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New Bereavement Cost Calculator shows that grief is expensive

by EMMA PAYNE Grief is expensive. In addition to the significant human impacts, research shows that bereavement leads to a 20%-30% increase in...

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Does American Health Care Violate the ICJ’s Recent Climate Advisory Opinion?

By DAVID INTROCASO In late July the UN International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced its long-awaited and highly-anticipated climate advisory...