Why don’t “pro-lifers” support birth control?
There has been a lot of commentary this week about the GOP-led proposal to de-fund Planned Parenthood. Commentators such as Ezra Klein note the irrationality of this stance, since Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleThe Epidemic: Typhoid at Cornell
In the United States, we tend to take our clean drinking water for granted. Even though there are periodic concerns which bubble up about pharmaceuticals or other chemicals in our water supply, we...
View ArticleNick Kristof on our food supply
Nick Kristof has an op/ed in today’s NY Times noting some sober statistics about the food we eat: that it puts 350,00 people in the hospital and kills 5,000 in the U.S. every year. He also cites three...
View Article“The Fever” by Sonia Shah
Malaria is one of mankind’s most ancient scourges. A century after the discovery of its cause, various species of the parasite Plasmodium, humanity still remains in its deadly grip in many areas of the...
View ArticleOn the value of pseudonyms
Our new Scienceblogs overlords sure have great timing with their new pseudonymous blogging rules. For those who haven’t run across that yet, National Geographic has decided to eliminate pseudonyms and...
View ArticleClimate change and public health
I rarely write about climate change. As much as it’s been hashed out amongst climate scientists, and even many of the former “climate skeptics” have now changed their tune, I readily accept that...
View ArticleRaw milk. Raw deal?
This is the sixth of 16 student posts, guest-authored by Anna Lyons-Nace. Natural…unprocessed…raw. These terms are often used by consumers, nutritionists and health experts to denote the most...
View ArticleGrowth hormones in milk: myth/fact
This is the ninth of 16 student posts, guest-authored by Jaspreet Gill. It’s been over a decade since FDA approved use of artificial (recombinant) growth hormones in dairy cows. This topic remains...
View ArticleObstetric fistula as a neglected tropical disease
Mahabouba*, age 14, was sold into a marriage as a second wife to a man 50 almost years her senior. Raped and beaten repeatedly, she ended up pregnant, finally succeeding in running away 7 months into...
View ArticleHIV In-Home Testing Kits: Increased Awareness or Increased Problems?
Fifth of five student guest posts by Jonathan Yuska The saying, “The more you know, the more you can control,” is no more meaningful than when used in the context of HIV detection and prevention....
View ArticleGuest post: Will new FDA guidelines reduce threat from superbugs?
Guest post by Tim Fothergill, Ph.D. In January of this year the British Chief Medical Officer urged her government to add threat posed by superbugs to the official list of “Apocalypses to Worry About”...
View ArticleWhy quarantine for measles is critical…and quarantine for Ebola was not
Measles has come to the happiest place on Earth. As of this writing, a total of 32 cases of measles have been linked to Disneyland visits that took place between December 17th and 20th. About 75% of...
View ArticleThe Epidemic: Typhoid at Cornell
In the United States, we tend to take our clean drinking water for granted. Even though there are periodic concerns which bubble up about pharmaceuticals or other chemicals in our water supply, we...
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