Category: Health and Medicine
Guest post by Lawrence W. Green This was a year when Ebola and its one death in the United States has produced an American public riveted by the drama of tracing the infected and their contacts and frightened by the prospect, albeit remote, of the virus reaching them. Apart from the millions of dollars spent…
Guest post by Lawrence W. Green This was a year when Ebola and its one death in the United States has produced an American public riveted by the drama of tracing the infected and their contacts and frightened by the prospect, albeit remote, of the virus reaching them. Apart from the millions of dollars spent…
Guest post by Gillian Regina Barclay and Howell Wechsler Today on the blog, we are pleased to publish the appreciative foreword to Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions. This just-published book, edited by Virginia M.Brennan, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, will debut at the American Public Health Association annual meeting this weekend…
Guest post by Gillian Regina Barclay and Howell Wechsler Today on the blog, we are pleased to publish the appreciative foreword to Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions. This just-published book, edited by Virginia M.Brennan, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, will debut at the American Public Health Association annual meeting this weekend…
Guest Post by Susan Squier and J. Ryan Marks Since its beginning, the journal Configurations has fostered “the multi-disciplinary study of the relations among literature and language, the arts, science, medicine, and technology.” Those are the words of editors Melissa Littlefield and Rajani Sudan when they assumed the editorship two years ago. The pair promised the journal…
Guest post by Anthony Feinstein I am a clinician scientist and my primary research interest focuses on behavioral changes secondary to multiple sclerosis. Using structural and functional MRI, I search for brain changes that help explain cognitive dysfunction and depression, both commonly found in people with MS. So what has this to do with war?…
Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…
Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Susan Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. On August 11, 2014, the world learned that we had lost a dearly beloved, charismatic human being to the devastating illness and consequences of depression. To…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Susan Noonan, M.D., M.P.H. On August 11, 2014, the world learned that we had lost a dearly beloved, charismatic human being to the devastating illness and consequences of depression. To…