Public Health The Case of For-Profit Hospitals: Profits over Patients? For decades, the debate over for-profit hospitals has been a heated one: do they provide more efficient…Dani MaydanSeptember 25, 2019
Public Health Measles Outbreaks Across the Country Reflect Impact of Anti-Vaxxers Although it's only the beginning of 2019, the measles virus, which was recently declared by the federal…Dani MaydanSeptember 25, 2019
Public Health Lyme Disease: A Bigger Threat than Ever Before Lyme disease, a pesky tick-born illness that used to be a matter of worry only…Dani MaydanAugust 7, 2019
Public Health Hedgehog-Linked Salmonella on the Rise According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium, a type of…Dani MaydanAugust 7, 2019
Public Health Study Finds Women are More Likely to Die of Heart Attacks When Treated by Male Doctors A two-decade-long study, following over half a million heart attack patients treated in Florida hospitals, concluded that…Dani MaydanMarch 2, 2019
Public Health Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ebola Crisis Comes Back With a Vengeance Despite high hopes that the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was…Dani MaydanFebruary 10, 2019
Public Health Salmonella Outbreak Linked to Popular Kellogg’s Cereal The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging people to return their boxes of…Dani MaydanAugust 27, 2018
Public Health Ebola Breaks Out in the Democratic Republic of Congo After its initial outbreak almost 40 years ago in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),…Dani MaydanJuly 1, 2018
Public Health HIV on the Rise in Massachusetts Drug Users A recent spike of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the state of Massachusetts, which is…Dani MaydanMay 28, 2018
Public Health The Health Implications of Increased Screen Time Among Young Children Children in the United States are getting more and more mobile screen time these days,…Dani MaydanApril 22, 2018
Public Health South Sudan Halts Spread of Guinea Worms, Paves Way for Eradication Although it was just a few decades ago that Guinea-Worm-Disease (GWD) was affecting an estimated 3.5…Dani MaydanApril 19, 2018
Public Health Huge Hepatitis A Outbreak Continues to Spread Across Southern California Since governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in early October in response to Southern…Dani MaydanApril 8, 2018
Public Health Diphtheria Outbreak in Yemen begins to die down After experiencing a massive Cholera outbreak that has infected almost 1 million people since summer, Yemen…Dani MaydanMarch 14, 2018
Public Health Yemen Starts Making a Comeback From The “Worst Cholera Outbreak in the World” Yemen's devastating Cholera outbreak has infected almost one million people and killed over 2,000 since July,…Dani MaydanJanuary 3, 2018
Public Health “Activity Inequality” Discovered to be a Large Public Health Risk for Obesity Although the word “smartphone” usually conjures up the image of a bratty teenager glued to…Dani MaydanJanuary 2, 2018