9 Best Articles in 2020
The Washington Post
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying from strokes
The Washington Post
5 min read · 612 saves · Apr 24th · Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead by strokes. Some didn’t even know they were infected by coronavirus.
The Atlantic
Hygiene Theater Is a Huge Waste of Time
The Atlantic
7 min read · 314 saves · Jul 27th · Derek Thompson · Companies are power scrubbing their way to a false sense of security.
MIT Technology Review
Google’s medical AI was super accurate in a lab. Real life was a different story.
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 236 saves · Apr 27th · If AI is really going to make a difference to patients we need to know how it works when real humans get their hands on it, in real situations.
MIT Technology Review
The coronavirus pandemic is a game changer for mental health care
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 174 saves · Mar 20th · Regulatory changes and anxiety heightened by isolation are leading to a boom in use of mental health apps and teletherapy—but are they good enough?
WIRED
This Algorithm Doesn't Replace Doctors—It Makes Them Better
WIRED
2 min read · 168 saves · Jul 17th · Tom Simonite · An artificial intelligence system has outperformed physicians when detecting skin lesions. The results are changing how one school trains dermatologists.
The New York Times
The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus
The New York Times
10 min read · 161 saves · Jul 5th · New federal data provides the most comprehensive view to date of how Black and Latino people have been likelier than their white peers to contract the virus and die from it.
Science Magazine
From ‘brain fog’ to heart damage, COVID-19’s lingering problems alarm scientists
Science Magazine
~18 min read · 149 saves · Jul 31st · Some COVID-19 survivors are still sick months later. Doctors want to learn why and what they can do
The New York Times
How the World Missed Covid-19’s Silent Spread
The New York Times
20+ min read · 148 saves · Jun 27th · Symptomless transmission makes the coronavirus far harder to fight. But health officials dismissed the risk for months, pushing misleading and contradictory claims in the face of mounting evidence.
The New York Times
It Started as a Tax Cut. Now It Could Change American Life.
The New York Times
9 min read · 139 saves · From 2017 · An overhaul championed by President Trump and Republican leaders could reshape health care, education and social services.
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MIT Technology Review
This is the Stanford vaccine algorithm that left out frontline doctors
MIT Technology Review
2 min read · 95 saves · Dec 21st · The university hospital blamed a “very complex algorithm” for its unequal vaccine distribution plan. Here’s what went wrong.
ProPublica
For years, JaMarcus Crews tried to get a new kidney, but corporate healthcare stood in the way.
ProPublica
37 saves · Dec 15th · He needed dialysis to stay alive. He couldn’t miss a session, not even during a pandemic.
MIT Technology Review
What are the ingredients of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine?
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 31 saves · Dec 9th · Facebook said on December 3 that it would remove posts with false claims or conspiracy theories about what’s in the covid-19 vaccines that everyone’s counting on. In the face of rumors suggesting that…
The Independent
Opinion: Effective leadership is the ultimate vaccine against coronavirus
The Independent
2 min read · 28 saves · Dec 19th · Decision-makers are the key to healthy nations and prosperous economies. It’s vital those in power valorize science, and show humility, empathy and solidarity
STAT
Shaped by war and hardship, ER doctor chronicles Covid-19
STAT
~12 min read · 19 saves · Dec 21st · “I’ve trained for this. I’ve been in war, and this is absolutely worse,” the doctor said. “There is no date when I know I’m going home.”
Fast Company
See a hospital designed by patients
Fast Company
4 min read · 17 saves · Dec 16th · Nate Berg · The new children’s ward at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston was designed for, and by, patients and their families.
Nature
Is a racially-biased algorithm delaying health care for one million Black people?
Nature
4 min read · 15 saves · Dec 16th · Jyoti Madhusoodanan · Sweeping calculation suggests it could be — but how to fix the problem is unclear.
VentureBeat
Amazon launches HealthLake, a platform for storing and analyzing health care data
VentureBeat
1 min read · 15 saves · Dec 8th · Kyle Wiggers · One of Amazon's newest cloud services, HealthLake, is a platform for storing and analyzing health care data.
STAT
Covid-19 vaccines can't arrive soon enough for health workers
STAT
~11 min read · 14 saves · Dec 13th · STAT spoke to health care workers — nurses, doctors, and a paramedic — who will be among the first to be offered the new vaccines.
The New York Times
Opinion | What to Do About Doctors Who Push Misinformation?
The New York Times
3 min read · 14 saves · Dec 11th · They have crossed the line from free speech to medical practice — or in this case, something akin to malpractice.
