In his commencement address at Pasadena-based California Institute of Technology, Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon and public health researcher, told graduates that scientific thinking is under siege.

WASHINGTON--Physicians have long operated as independent problem solvers, but the complexity of health care has become more than what individual physicians can handle. That autonomy has also ...

Atul Gawande, MD, a surgeon at Boston-based Brigham and Women’s Hospital and writer for The New Yorker, said after conducting numerous interviews with people from his hometown, some of those residents ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...