Communications and public health: An interview with Monisha Arya, M.D., M.P.H
Dr. Monisha Arya talks about her experience with a health campaign design contest and the overall importance of healthcare communications.
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Helping the most vulnerable: Kids in foster care
What can be done to improve the child welfare system and help make the lives of foster care children better?
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Optimizing precision medicine in diabetes treatment
What is precision diabetes medicine, and how can it reduce the worldwide burden of diabetes and its costs?
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Equity in COVID-19: Who will have access to life-saving treatment?
Is treatment available? Can I afford it? These questions are universally asked by many people — from the 65-year-old Medicare recipient at the local pharmacy
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Reducing the DUI legal limit: A spirited debate
Earlier this year, Utah took a key step at reducing one of the key harms associated with alcohol: impaired driving. The Utah state legislature passed
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Zika virus: We dodged a bullet, right?
As the weather turns warm again in Houston, many of us are aware of what’s just around the corner: a hot and humid summer filled
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Adequate nutrition should be priority for whole family
Earlier this year, JAMA Pediatrics published an essay about processed food and its impact on health. The author, Dr. Robert Lustig, describes processed food as
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Soda taxes win big at polls despite industry lobbying
Buried under the headlines of the recent controversial election is a big public health win for five U.S. cities. On Election Day, voters in Boulder,
Read moreA matter of health: How 2015 Nobel Prize drug might rid Africa of ancient scourges
By Dr. Peter Hotez The announcement that the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three scientists who developed antiparasitic disease drugs has
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Electronic algorithms help "find" patients lost in the system
By Julia Parsons In an era when increasing pressures to increase clinical productivity can create data overload and when time is limited, sometimes the critical issue
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