Healthcare

Each September, Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month and Prostate Cancer Awareness Month bring attention to two cancers that affect countless patients, families, and communities. These observances offer an opportunity to raise awareness, support education, and recognize the people working every day to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, research, and care.

Grief is often treated as something private, linear or separate from everyday life. But for anyone who has experienced loss, caregiving, illness or major change, grief can become part of how we move through the world, shaping relationships, work, health and the way we understand ourselves.

Professor Michelle Williams recently joined the McKinsey Health Institute for a powerful conversation on why public health should be understood as public wealth. In the interview, “Michelle Williams on why public health is public wealth,” Williams argues that the health of a population is not a charitable concern or a secondary priority. It is infrastructure.

Healthcare works better when patients, caregivers, clinicians, and communities are not operating in separate lanes. That idea is at the heart of Dr. Stella A. Safo’s work and the mission behind Octavia’s Cure.

Michael Douglas has spent decades in the public eye, building a career that spans some of the most memorable films in modern Hollywood. Now, in his new memoir, One Helluva Ride, he turns the lens inward.

Dr. Aletha Maybank joined Northwell Health’s 20-Minute Health Talk podcast for a two-part conversation on her path into medicine, the meaning of health equity, and the role of proximity, story, policy, and systems change in creating better health outcomes.

Observed each July, Disability Pride Month is an opportunity to celebrate disabled identity, honor the history of disability rights, and reflect on the work still needed to create more accessible communities.

In a recent American Conversations interview, historian Heather Cox Richardson sat down with legendary LGBTQIA+ activist and bestselling author Cleve Jones for a powerful discussion on activism, public health, the AIDS crisis and the importance of remembering the movements that brought us here.

June marks Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness Month, a time to deepen understanding of the brain, the families affected by Alzheimer’s and dementia, and the caregivers helping loved ones navigate profound change.