First Opinion

First Opinion By Ted W. Love

Sickle cell disease and a pivotal moment to end health inequality

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: An OB-GYN on the maternal mortality crisis in the U.S.

First Opinion By Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Matthew Guido, and Patricia Hong

Vaxxed or axed: To protect patients, every health care worker must be vaccinated

First Opinion By Alissa Erogbogbo

Managed care’s role in protecting women from childbirth-related complications

First Opinion By Robert M. Kaplan

The decline in Covid-19 preceded vaccines. But we need jabs to finish the job

First Opinion By Susan Molchan

With Aduhelm, is history repeating itself with another win for Wall Street and a loss for patients?

First Opinion By Allen Frances

Ignoring mental health infrastructure will be a costly mistake

First Opinion By Tanika Gray Valbrun

Uterine fibroids affect millions of women. Why has this condition been overlooked for decades?

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A biostatistician on the ‘gold mine’ in our sewers

First Opinion By Emil D. Kakkis

Aduhelm’s accelerated approval offers a promising roadmap for rare neurological diseases

First Opinion By Peter Sands

Why aren’t diseases like HIV and malaria, which still kill millions of people a year, called pandemics?

First Opinion By Margaret Goldberg

Patient advocacy groups and innovators must partner to advance new treatments

First Opinion By Josh Marx

Outdated Medicare rules threaten older Americans’ access to home medical equipment

First Opinion By Jaime Nguyen

The health care workforce is understaffed for life after Covid-19

First Opinion By Julia Raifman, Alexandra Skinner, and David Michaels

Something to celebrate: delivering vaccines to essential workers

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A sister on watching the mental health care system fail her brother

First Opinion By Kollet Koulianos and Keri Norris

Copay assistance should count as part of patients’ cost sharing for medications

First Opinion By David Introcaso and Walt Vernon

Public reporting: the first step in addressing the health care industry’s bloated carbon footprint

First Opinion By Danielle Ofri

Florence Nightingale in the age of Covid-19

First Opinion By James K. Glassman

Biden won’t end cancer — or any other disease — by importing drug price controls from Europe

First Opinion By William Eger and Margaret House

Confronting a legacy of scarcity: a plan for reinvesting in U.S. public health

First Opinion By David Weill

An open letter to 2021 medical school graduates

First Opinion By Lipi Roy, Reshma Gupta, and Bhavna Lall

India’s doctors — at home and abroad — face Covid’s unrelenting toll

First Opinion By Sevahn Vorperian and Stephen Quake

The PASTEUR Act can help win the war against superbugs

First Opinion By Paul Knoepfler

For now, stem cells for Covid-19 are mostly a shot in the dark

First Opinion By David Lenihan

The Covid-19 relief bill created 1,000 more residency slots for new doctors. Wealthy hospitals should be last in line to get them

First Opinion By Aparna Keshaviah

Next steps for wastewater testing to help end this pandemic — and prevent the next one

First Opinion By Karla Theilen

Breaths, deaths, and missed breaks: How counting defined my days as a pandemic nurse

First Opinion Podcast By Patrick Skerrett

Listen: Priscilla Chan on pediatric biology and research: ‘Children are not tiny adults’