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Nicole Spencer, 24, a medical student who suffers from Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), organizes her weekly medication.

Young Americans Prioritize Health Care in 2024 Election

by Anil Cacodcar

The chair of the Harvard Public Opinion Project explains why young Americans view health care as a top election issue

Governance
Media crews work at the press room in the McCamish Pavilion on the Georgia Institute of Technology campus ahead of the first 2024 presidential debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and former U.S. President Donald Trump in Atlanta, Georgia, June 27, 2024.

Health Policy Takeaways from 2024's First U.S. Presidential Debate

by Chloe Searchinger

Where the presidential debate mentioned or missed on COVID responses, drug pricing, Medicare, and reproductive health

A pair of elderly couples view the ocean and waves along the beach.
Aging

Rethinking Insurance for an Aging Population

by Maya Fransz-Myers, David Knapp, Jinkook Lee

Instead of patchwork policy and inaction, the United States needs a national program for long-term care

Respiratory therapist Annette James wears personal protective equipment as she prepares to see a patient at Medical Arts Hospital in Lamesa, Texas, United States, on December 17, 2020.
Poverty

Texas’s Persistent Problem

by Ashley Nies

Understanding why gaps in Texas’s Medicaid coverage persist

Kidney disease increases are concentrated among farm workers in hot, humid conditions, including sugarcane fields in Central America, similar to this one in Jacarezinho, Brazil on January 1, 2019. Picture is taken at the edge of a field on a sugar plantation on a spectacularly clear day. The earth is brown, the growing canes are green, and the deep blue sky has little fluffy clouds rolling in. REUTERS/Marcelo Texeira
Environment

Climate Change, the Kidney Killer

by Alton Lu

Is chronic kidney disease the canary in the coal mine in terms of feeling the health impacts of climate change?