“They never told us uranium was dangerous. We washed our faces in it. We drank in it. We ate in it. It was sweet,” explained…
Posts tagged as “public health”
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called it, “Biden’s mark of the beast” and a form of “corporate communism.” Weeks later, Rep. Madison Cawthorn compared it to…
It’s over in a second. A quick prick and then you’re done. You don’t feel any different in the moment, but that tiny shot has…
In March of 2020, as it became increasingly clear that COVID-19 would be a catastrophic threat to the United States, numerous criminal justice experts warned…
Wildlife markets do pose a health risk, and authorities should permanently close them. However, if the world is truly dedicated to stopping future disease outbreaks, it must address larger issues.
On November 25, 2018, a Chinese researcher by the name of He Jiankui released a video of himself detailing the process through which he edited…
Jaya, an educated college woman in India, falls in love with a man, Keshav, who has an incredibly superstitious family. She has to pretend to…
Vaccinations have been at the heart of discussions on public health in California. Or rather, they have been injected into California schoolchildren and their caretakers,…
If you have ever gone to the doctor’s office, chances are an ICD code, critical to your health care and billing, was used. The ICD…
The horrific nationwide outbreak in measles has caused a renewed interest and discussion regarding vaccinations of such diseases. While in 2013 there were just under…
As the lights of University of Phoenix Stadium darken at the end of Super Bowl 49, health officials are waiting for fallout. Thousands of football…
With the world focusing on the Ebola outbreak ravaging through West Africa, it is easy to overlook an equally dangerous disease lurking behind global headlines:…
Cold-and-flu season is well under way in California, but this fall, young children in Southern California are being exposed to a different kind of runny nose.…
Since its March 2013 bankruptcy, the city of Detroit has been beleaguered with considerable economic woes. With $12.3 billion in unpaid liabilities and a purported…