Sean Campbell, Investigative journalist, The Conversation; Charlene Harrington, Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors filed their survey report of the Kentucky facility on…
Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova School of Law The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half. The jump – in some cases from around a little over US$10 to almost $100 for an inhaler…
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Dennis M. Gorman, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University Early…
Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute,…
The first human case of the fatal rat-borne hantavirus was confirmed in Michigan, health officials said on Monday. Patients are infected with the illness when they take in air carrying the virus…
Maureen Miller, Columbia University As more and more people around the world are getting vaccinated, one can almost hear the collective sigh of relief. But the next pandemic threat is likely already…
Arif R. Sarwari, West Virginia University Imagine last night you developed a little runny nose and a sore throat. When you woke up this morning you started coughing and had a fever.…
US President Joe Biden has laid down his country’s plan to impart some 80 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines overseas, allocating the first 25 million doses to nations in Asia, Africa, the…
For the first time since March this year, the US has logged lower than 20, 000 new daily virus cases in a week’s average. The Johns Hopkins University data showed that new…
Karen Levy, University of Washington Kill every human on the planet. This is the first assignment I give students in my public health classes, filled with do-gooders passionate about saving the world.…
Claudia Finkelstein, Michigan State University The U.S. is in far different shape today than it was last Memorial Day, and many Americans are, too. According to a recent survey by the American…
The announcement made by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that vaccinated individuals are allowed to take their masks off resulted in a surge of people’s interest to get COVID-19…
Debbie-Ann Shirley, University of Virginia The Food and Drug Administration expanded emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to include adolescents 12 to 15 years of age on May 10, 2021.…
William Petri, University of Virginia When COVID-19 first began spreading, public health and medical experts began talking about the need for the U.S. to reach herd immunity to stop the coronavirus from…
