Stopping the Gaps in Epidemic PreparednessMay 9, 2019 |
Jeremy Farrar writes ‘First isolated in Malaysia in 1999, Nipah virus rapidly went from unknown to endemic in Bangladesh, which has seen an outbreak almost every year since 2001. Large gaps remain in our understanding, however, such as how the virus crossed India to spark an epidemic…’
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Dr. Hasan Shanawani was overcome by frustration. So, last week he picked up his cellphone and began sharing on Twitter his family’s enraging experiences with the U.S. health care system
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Why Giving People Easy Access to Food Doesn’t Improve Their HealthDecember 22, 2015 |
In recent years, there’s been a lot of attention paid to food deserts, those culinary wastelands without supermarkets
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The Tricky Ethics of the Lucrative Disaster Rescue BusinessAugust 3, 2015 |
“We are not the Red Cross. We don’t have the ability to just deploy our services to people who haven’t paid a membership fee”
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Vaccinations Are States’ CallFebruary 17, 2015 |
Refusing to back down, he fought the state law all the way to the Supreme Court. And Mr. Jacobson, a minister in Cambridge, lost. The year was 1905. There had recently been a major outbreak of the disease in Boston, and the court said, essentially, that the state’s obligation to protect public health trumped Mr. Jacobson’s wish to avoid the needle
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Ebola Patient’s Family QuarantinedOctober 2, 2014 |
Questions arise about preparations and whether family members have been treated with adequate respect. A failure to meet basic moral obligations?
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Medical Inequality in Ebola Treatment?August 22, 2014 |
The release of Dr. Kent Brantly & Nancy Writebol have opened the door to a moral debate about Ebola treatment for Americans versus those in Africa. Our Dr. Nancy Kass joins Ronan Farrow to discuss this contrast
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The Government Says Cut the FatJuly 18, 2013 |
Following on the controversial large, sugar-laden drinks ban, the newest front in Mayor Bloomberg’s war on obesity: encouraging New Yorkers to use the stairs
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