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There is an ongoing race to build artificial intelligence to rival or exceed the human capacity for seeing, thinking, and feeling. While I share the accuracy, ethical, and safety worries that critics raise about the adoption of unregulated AI tools in medicine, as a patient I am also concerned about the erosion of the humane, therapeutic experiences of medicine with the intrusion of these tools on the patient-physician relationship. (Aliaa Barakat, 4/15)

As a pediatrician and a scientist-in-training, I conduct research on a critical question in my community: Where are families facing the greatest risks of housing and food insecurity? This work is fundamental to improving children’s lives. Yet recently, the National Institutes of Health abruptly terminated my funding. (Logan Beyer, 4/15)

At a certain age, the parts of a single body that have lived in harmony for years start to separate and insist on their own specialists. One PCP is not enough anymore. (Elissa Ely, 4/14)

Family caregivers need us to show up for them through structural investment in formal elder care, especially day programs for people with Alzheimer's and dementia. There are 7 million Americans who have Alzheimer's and about twice that many family caregivers. The lifetime risk for Alzheimer's at age 45 is 1 in 5 for women and 1 in 10 for men. (Courtney E. Martin, 4/14)

The Texas Senate has already passed a bill to allow Texas to prohibit the purchase of sugary beverages and unhealthful snacks like candy and potato chips using food stamps. Lawmakers are reacting to the reality that food stamps have become a major cause of our state’s and our country’s health crisis. (Victoria Eardley, 4/14)