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Health

Medicine, the body, and public health

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The Psychiatry We Lost

For thirty years, psychiatry bet everything on the biological model of mental illness. The drugs worked, sort of, for some people. What got lost was everything else — and now a generation is paying the price.

Nadia OseiMarch 4, 2026

Health

The Mental Health Crisis Is Real. The Response Is Not.

Rates of depression, anxiety, and suicide have risen for two decades. The clinical system designed to respond to them is failing — not by accident, but by design.

Dr. Amara SinghFebruary 20, 202613 min

Health

The Sleep Deprivation Crisis No One Is Taking Seriously

We have known for decades that Americans are not sleeping enough and that this is making us sicker, dumber, and more dangerous. We have done almost nothing about it.

Dr. Oliver MerrittFebruary 20, 202610 min

Health

Why American Drugs Cost More Than Everywhere Else

The United States pays two to three times what other wealthy countries pay for the same medications. This is a policy choice, not an economic law — and the politics of changing it are more complicated than either party admits.

Dr. Amara SinghJanuary 30, 202612 min

Health

What We Eat Is Killing Us. The Signal Was There All Along.

Metabolic disease — obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, fatty liver — now accounts for the majority of US healthcare spending. The dietary signals that predicted this have been visible for decades.

Dr. Amara SinghJanuary 14, 202613 min