The field of medicine has long attracted the best and brightest — individuals who are hardworking, driven, tenacious, and empathetic. These eager students head to top medical schools with the desire to make a difference and meaningfully impact lives. They take on hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, study and practice relentlessly, work exhaustive residency hours, and then enter the healthcare workforce where, for many, those grueling hours continue — stretching doctors thinner and thinner.

Sure, you can deadlift serious poundage and you just ran a 10k, but do you know the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise? Here, we refer to the experts for a breakdown on the two different types of cardio that do a body good. Aerobic exercise pumps oxygenated blood from the heart to the muscles.

One afternoon in 2015, Phirin Kennedy came across an article about an infant being left by accident in a fatally hot car. She turned to her husband, Brian, and told him, “There has to be a way to fix this.”. Her statement was more of a reflection than a call to action, but, Brian Kennedy recalled later, “that got us thinking.”.

If you’re pregnant and live with ADHD, things can get complicated quickly. Most of the front-line medications used to treat ADHD in adults are category C drugs. That basically means that there’s insufficient research available to say whether or not the medication is safe to use during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

The Gehr Center/Slow Medicine series "Disruptions or Distractions: A Critical Look at Healthcare Delivery Reform" unpacks the data behind healthcare delivery system interventions, highlighting well-intended reforms that have yet to achieve the impact many have assumed. The series is edited by Michael Hochman, MD, MPH, Rachael Bedard, MD, and Pieter Cohen, MD.