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I am a psychiatrist who has worked at a major university’s mental health clinic for 16 years. Much of next year’s freshman class was born the year before I started working here. Technically, my job is to keep my door open and help students through crises, big and small. But I have also developed a comprehensive approach to the assessment and treatment of anxious parents. (Mathilde Ross, 4/8)

This week marks one year since the Great Medicaid Purge (a.k.a. the “unwinding”) began. Early during the pandemic, in exchange for additional funds, Congress temporarily prohibited states from kicking anyone off Medicaid. But as of April 1, 2023, states were allowed to start disenrolling people. (Catherine Rampell, 8/5)

Parkland Health has been helping legislators craft guidelines around the use of artificial intelligence in medicine, one of the few public hospitals doing so among private institutions like Duke and Stanford universities. Parkland’s diligence in trying to harness this new technology helps us all in Dallas County. (4/8)

Ina Pinkney was only 18 months old when she contracted polio in 1944. In those days, there was such trepidation of the disease that, as Ina told me, children who were hospitalized were kept away from their parents. Families could visit with them only one hour a week, through a glass window. (Leana S. Wen, 4/8)

It’s been more than a month since an unprecedented cyberattack nearly brought down a large portion of American healthcare, severely limiting some patients and providers from completing the most basic tasks, such as scheduling appointments, approving medications and certifying insurance eligibility. (Chip Kahn and Dr. Bruce Siegel, 4/8)