Public Health Do No Additional Harm: Healthcare-Associated Infections There might be some irony to contracting an infection at a healthcare facility, but healthcare-associated…Anna GrimaldoSeptember 23, 2018
Public Health Kids’ Health Amid Immigration Stress In the past weeks, media coverage has focused on how recent policy changes are causing…Ilhaam BurnySeptember 17, 2018
Public Health Eliminating Trachoma Worldwide Trachoma is a bacterial infection that can cause irreversible blindness. Although it is not widely…Ilhaam BurnySeptember 8, 2018
Public Health The Role of Bots in the Spread of Public Health Information Anyone who has used social media is likely familiar with the CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA is…Cath AshleySeptember 5, 2018
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 When Two Human Rights Fight: An Overlooked Challenge in Migration & Health Premed Perspective From Switzerland: Part VII Believe it or not, migration trends have a direct impact…Lochan ShahJune 22, 2018
Public Health De-linking R&D From the Price of Drugs: Fantasy or Future? Premed Perspective From Switzerland: Part VIII As a society, we've become pretty used to thinking…Lochan ShahJune 22, 2018
Public Health The Link Between Climate Change and Allergies At some point during the year, up to a third of the global population experiences…Ilhaam BurnyJune 2, 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 Can We Fight the Opioid Crisis by Making Less of Them? At some point during the year, up to a third of the global population experience…Nicole BarcegaMay 28, 2018
Public Health What Goes Up, Must Come Down? Newton's third law clearly does not apply to every entity, especially drug prices. Over the…Vasundhara AcharyaMay 1, 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 The Rising Popularity of Park Prescriptions A growing body of public health research has found that green spaces, such as community…Ilhaam BurnyApril 18, 2018
Public Health Vaginal Mesh Scandal: Who’s Problem is it? The vaginal mesh, as the name suggests, is a mesh made of usually synthetic polymers,…Vasundhara AcharyaApril 12, 2018
Public Health What is Happening to Obamacare? News channels and reporters have been broadcasting and headlining the Trump administration's healthcare reforms, but…Vasundhara AcharyaApril 11, 2018
Public Health Overprescription of Opioids: A Study Opioid prescription and use is a highly contested subject. It is great for pain management,…Vasundhara AcharyaApril 10, 2018
Public Health Ethics in a Sci-Fi World Designer babies and human germ-line editing: is this where the future of scientific research is taking us?…Vasundhara AcharyaApril 9, 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