January 12, 2026
By Artina Dozier-Gage Here we are again, in the first few days of a new year, facing the idealized (and often romanticized) tradition of the promise many of...
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December 16, 2025
By Dennis Archambault One of the most perplexing issues facing modern health care today is not one that can be solved in a laboratory or clinical research. It...
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November 10, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Emergency food providers throughout the nation are bearing the weight of the halt of full funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). The government is...
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October 9, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Nearly half of the older households in the United States have no savings or other financial assets and most lack the financial support to withstand a...
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September 8, 2025
By Dennis Archambault The debate between the relative importance of investing in people or business is ongoing, a little like what came first, the chicken or the egg. The...
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September 7, 2025
By Dennis Archambault A few years ago, one of our academic interns expressed frustration with so many people missing their medical appointments. She learned that the reason is simple...
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August 26, 2025
By Dennis Archambault One of the assets in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) is its requirement that insurance companies cover prevention services without cost to their...
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August 20, 2025
By Manal Alzubaidy In Dearborn, Michigan, many expecting and new mothers face a quiet but persistent challenge: accessing the care and support they need for a healthy pregnancy...
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August 13, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Whether incidents of trauma are increasing, or whether our awareness of trauma is increasing – or both – is a matter of professional discussion. What is...
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August 6, 2025
By Dennis Archambault Medical debt is a problem that plagues low-income households struggling to “stay afloat.” It is a major contributing cause of poverty, and some argue that it...
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August 5, 2025
Above: Martese Trotter, 3rd grade student at Hope Academy By Dennis Archambault Fifteen years ago, President Obama established a Task Force on Childhood Obesity, and First Lady Michele Obama...
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July 21, 2025
By Dennis Archambault The journey to a career in medicine requires a lot of help along the way. Often that help comes from peers who are well into that...
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