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By Dhruv Khullar
In Patient Care, Policy
Posted May 6, 2025

A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration

In 1999, Peggy Bryant, a fifty-year-old oncology nurse in Boston, received a postcard asking whether she’d like to take part in a clinical trial aimed at preventing diabetes. Well, this is [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Humanism
Posted April 28, 2025

On Oliver Sacks’s “The Case of Anna H.”

In 1999, Oliver Sacks, the eclectic neurologist who was dubbed the “poet laureate of medicine,” received a letter from a pianist, Anna H. “My (very unusual) problem, in one sentence, and in [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Policy, Politics
Posted March 9, 2025

The Undermining of American Science

The United States, for much of its history, was less an engine of scientific progress than a beneficiary of it. Pasteur, Koch, Lister, Mendel, Curie, Fleming—the giants who midwifed modern [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Innovation
Posted February 10, 2025

Can the Human Body Endure a Voyage to Mars?

On March 2, 2016, at around 9 A.M. local time, in Kazakhstan, Scott Kelly plunged through the Earth’s atmosphere in a Soyuz spacecraft travelling at seventeen thousand miles an hour. As expected, [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Quality
Posted January 7, 2025

Why Is the American Diet So Deadly?

Until recently, Guillaume Raineri, a forty-two-year-old man with a bald head and a bushy goatee, worked as an hvac technician in Gonesse, a small town about ten miles north of Paris. The area [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Health Care Quality
Posted December 13, 2024

The Gilded Age of Medicine Is Here

In 2010, a private-equity firm called Cerberus Capital Management, which is named for the three-headed dog that is said to guard the underworld, bought six Catholic hospitals in Massachusetts and [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Politics
Posted November 24, 2024

RFK Jr’s Nomination to H.H.S.

In 2018, two children in Samoa died after receiving measles vaccines, because the nurses who administered them had mistakenly mixed the vaccine powder with a muscle relaxant. Local vaccine [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Leadership, Mental Health, Politics
Posted October 27, 2024

Our National Health

A couple of weeks ago, Donald Trump turned in one of his strangest performances in a campaign with no shortage of them—part of a series of oddities that may or may not constitute an October [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Drug policy
Posted September 2, 2024

How Machines Learned to Discover Drugs

When I first became a doctor, I cared for an older man whom I’ll call Ted. He was so sick with pneumonia that he was struggling to breathe. His primary-care physician had prescribed one [...]

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By Dhruv Khullar
In Leadership, Policy, Politics
Posted July 18, 2024

Doctors Are Increasingly Worried About Biden

From the moment that Joe Biden announced his candidacy for President, in 2019, he has been attacked as being too old. At the time, Biden was seventy-six and cast himself as a “transitional” [...]

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Dhruv Khullar
Recent Posts
  • A Life-Changing Scientific Study Ended by the Trump Administration
    May 6, 2025
  • On Oliver Sacks’s “The Case of Anna H.”
    April 28, 2025
  • The Undermining of American Science
    March 9, 2025
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