First Opinion

First Opinion By Fiona Hathorn

‘Boards for All?’ Global health organizations and companies aren’t even close

First Opinion By Jesse Gubb

Making Medicare, Medicaid innovation tests voluntary undermines evaluation opportunities

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A new hotline could save lives during mental health crises — if someone answers the phone

First Opinion By Michelle Proser

How hospitals and health systems can help patients avoid medical debt

First Opinion By Yashoda Sharma and Chris Lunt

Wearable device data need to represent all of us

First Opinion By Rachel Solnick and Jason Zucker

Expedited partner therapy is an effective way to treat sexually transmitted infections. Why aren’t doctors using it?

First Opinion By Jeffrey E. Harris

In mask mandate case, judge ruled on wordplay, not public health

First Opinion By Richard N. Formica

Access to kidney transplantation is improving for everyone, but more work remains to be done

First Opinion By Walter G. Johnson and Diana M. Bowman

It’s time for Congress to stop blocking mitochondrial replacement therapy

Opinions+ By Scott Swain, Kristin M. Zimmerman Savill and Bruce Feinberg

Pharma’s role in value-based care starts with value-based research

First Opinion By Bernard Zipprich

Will the shadow of Aduhelm cloud FDA’s decision-making on an ALS therapy?

First Opinion By Benjamin F. Miller

Not going all in on the 988 hotline will ensure its failure

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Covid turned the nation’s eyes to nursing homes. Have we already looked away?

First Opinion By Alyssa Jaffee

If there is a digital health bubble, does it really matter for entrepreneurs?

First Opinion By Haider J. Warraich

Medicine needs to do right by patients prescribed opioids

First Opinion By Dawn Sinclair Shapiro

Men and women may respond differently to vaccines. Research needs to account for that

First Opinion By Harry Rhodes

FDA needs to follow through on its plan to ban carbadox in animal feed

First Opinion By Dinesh Thakur

India’s drug regulator has ignored red alerts on Covaxin, imperiling millions of lives

First Opinion By Annie Leone

Devastating separations continue for families seeking asylum, with dire health consequences

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Mental health needs are soaring. Where are all the psychiatrists?

Opinions+ By Marc Herant and Jason Brauner

Incentives to spur repurposing of existing generics for novel uses would open a new paradigm in drug R&D

First Opinion By Christin Drake

Amid the nation’s mental health crisis, we need more psychiatrists now

First Opinion By Antje M. Barreveld

As a pain specialist, I may have caused more harm by underprescribing opioids

First Opinion By Sadhana Jackson

The power of inclusion: Overturning the ‘white wall’ standard

First Opinion By Christopher M. Worsham and Anupam B. Jena

The ‘successful failures’ of Apollo 13 and Covid-19 vaccination

First Opinion By Shikha Jain, Vineet Arora and Eve Bloomgarden

The ‘bot holiday’ and why clinicians can’t tackle disinformation alone

First Opinion By Dennis J. Selkoe and Jeffrey Cummings

CMS made the wrong decision on Aduhelm. But there might be a silver lining

First Opinion By Gerard Vitti

Averting the looming purge of people from Medicaid

First Opinion By John N. Mafi and Catherine Sarkisian

Medicare got it right: Unproven Alzheimer’s drug would have threatened the financial stability of 60 million Americans