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Desperate patients, unable to get timely doctors’ appointments, seek help wherever they can find it. (Ilana Yurkiewicz, 4/2)

Recent weeks have brought something rare to Washington: meaningful, bipartisan progress on health care costs—progress built on a simple idea that should extend across the entire system. (Former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, 4/1)

The U.S. has the best health care in the world when outcomes for major illnesses are compared to those of other countries. However, the exploding costs are not sustainable. (Dr. Roger Stark, 4/2)

At 2026’s biggest gathering of cardiologists, prevention was the buzzword — but it remains unclear how to actually deliver this care to people. (Vishal Khetpal, 4/2)

Timothy Fong, an addiction psychiatrist and professor of psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles who has studied gambling disorder for more than two decades, argues that this reframing obscures the real risk. “You don’t actually have to ingest into your body for it to have a tremendous impact on your body, your brain, your mind, your spirit, and your wallet” he told me. The harm from gambling, he emphasized, is not just financial. It extends to physical health, mental health, family stability, and public health. (Ayesha Khan, 4/2)