Infectious diseases do not operate in a vacuum. They are not entities unto themselves, rogue actors that can be evaluated independent of their surroundings and treated in isolation. It is one thing find a treatment or a vaccine for a… Read More ›
Public Health
The Pro-Life Paradox: Can A State’s Views on Abortion Predict The Health Of Its Citizens?
When does a human life begin? At first glance it would seem like, given the myriad advances in science’s understanding of human reproductive biology in modern times, a simple question that should have a concrete answer. However, ask a dozen… Read More ›
The Dead Are Always Drug-Free: Why An Abstinence-Only Approach Will Never End The Heroin Epidemic
Heroin is not alcohol. This might seem like a fairly obvious and even ridiculous point to make, but there are so many people in our courts, our governments, our treatment centers and our recovery communities who don’t seem to grasp this… Read More ›
An Olympic Sized Disaster: The Many Ways The Rio Summer Games Can Go Wrong
There are few things in this world as reassuring and satisfying as the moment when, after shuffling through the crowded corridors of a stadium concourse, you catch your first glimpse of baseball field before a game. Everything about it, from… Read More ›
Who’s Afraid of The Zika Virus? How We Perceive Threat With Infectious Disease
My fellow Americans, there is a new disease among us. It has only recently begun to make its way to our country from Latin America, but it will surely spread farther. Discovered in Sub-Saharan Africa shortly after World War II,… Read More ›
You Can’t Quarantine Stupid: Ebola & Unconstitutional Health Policy
The year was 1918. After two and a half years of uneasy neutrality, America had finally entered The Great War and had committed over 4 million men to the war effort. As one would expect—or at least hope—the United States… Read More ›
Virally Suppressed - Muckraking For The Modern World 