Why Urinary Tract Infections Become More Common After Menopause – And What New Research Teaches About Prevention
Urinary tract infections after menopause are more common than many women expect. For some, a UTI appears after decades without one. For others, infections begin to recur, creating frustration and...
Hope, Social Adversity, and the Community Conditions That Protect Life
An In the News Reflection on Suicide Risk, Belonging, and Community Care Recent findings highlighted in VA Research News Briefs underscore a critical truth about social adversity and suicide risk....
The Laws of the Kingdom vs. the Law of the Prairie
Learning to Know the Truth About Health Care Systems and Everyday Care Recent reporting from The Washington Post highlights growing concern over rising health insurance premiums and the strain the...
When Care Is Designed for Everyone, But Misses Someone
Learning to Know the Truth About Rare Disease and Access This week, the National Organization for Rare Disorders highlighted a growing challenge in rare disease access to care in the United States...
When Research Loses the Patient at the Center
Learning to Know the Truth Recent reporting highlights growing concern about patient-centered research within the U.S. biomedical system. A Duke Chronicle article describes how reductions and rest...
When Care Can’t Reach People in Time
Recent reporting from Nevada makes something painfully clear: the primary care shortage is no longer a future concern. It is already shaping people’s lives. Patients wait weeks or months for appoin...
Learning to Know the Truth
An In the News Reflection A recent health research report described a new discovery about how bones respond to physical activity. Scientists identified a specific biological signal inside bone ma...
An Open Letter to Capitol Hill: From Fractured to Fractal Health Care Design
Why Health Policy Needs a Safe Harbor for Continuity To the Members of Congress, I am writing in response to recent reporting on President Donald Trump’s new health care proposal, including c...
When Analysis Paralysis Slows Healing—and Healthcare Reform
Why Progress Requires a Safe Harbor and a Clear First Step In a recent business article titled Digital Transformation in 2026: What to Modernize First for Maximum ROI, the authors make a simple bu...
Policy Gridlock and Moral Injury in Healthcare Workers
Need for a Safe Harbor Sometimes, strain in healthcare does not come from a single crisis.It comes from uncertainty that never resolves. In recent weeks, news coverage has focused on congressio...
