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Myelodysplastic syndrome, or high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome, the official diagnosis my husband had received that spring (“high risk of dying,” as I tended to clarify), has complicated the already complicated notion of a “post-pandemic” world for me. (Esme Weijun Wang, 9/20)

The Food and Drug Administration has convened a Pediatric Advisory Committee this week to determine whether artificial womb technology is ready to try on premature infants as well as to address regulatory and ethical considerations. Although the technology is promising, this development poses numerous ethical challenges. (Arthur Caplan and Gwendolyn P. Quinn, 9/19)

In the 1980s, when Anthony DuBose set out to become a psychologist, he was told never to work with people with borderline personality disorder because they had high rates of suicide and intense emotional distress. They were considered untreatable. (Kate Woodsome, 9/20)

Unless stopped, the Department of Veterans Affairs is set to knock over a domino that may drastically harm veterans’ health care and then spread to the general community. (William Enyart, 9/19)

Difficulty scheduling an urgent or time-sensitive appointment is now the most common gripe my patients sound off about to my primary care colleagues and me. Our practice is not the exception — it has become the rule. A 2022 national survey showed that, on average, it takes 20.6 days to get a family medicine appointment. (Jeffrey Millstein, 9/20)