Our Ebola response shows our true colors. Ain’t pretty.
I am very much of Helen Branswell’s mind that the world’s effort on Ebola, including that of the United States, should be focused on West Africa. Th...
Tag: Public health
Why Do Military Brats Kick Butt in Reading and Math?
Helen Epstein, in an aside in her fine piece on public-health innovator Sara Josephine Baker, suggests it rises partly from the excellent healthcare, daycare, a...
Whooping Cough Runs Amok in Washington — A Very Scary Graph
As I’ve been pushing my own legislators here in Vermont to close the big fat public health pothole called the ‘philosophical exemption,’ I oft...
Goldacre: Drug companies who hide research are unfit to experiment on people
Doctors and academics – who should feel optimism at working with the drug companies to develop new treatments – feel nausea instead, knowing that there are only...
The Week’s Best: Evolution, healthcare reform, clever apes, and Cheever in his undies
Evolution, healthcare reform, baboons, and Cheever in his underwear
Top 5 Neuron Culture Posts for October
A bit early yet, but as I'm traveling the rest of the month, here's my top 5 over the last month. Swine flu everywhere you look.
Why is the swine flu vaccine so late? Who are you to ask such a question?
I like industrial secrets as much as the next person. But it would seem that when tens of millions of doses of vaccine are weeks late, we might get something mo...
“The right to infect”: SophiaZoe tells us what she really thinks about health workers & flu shots
Nurses and doctors have won a victory in their battle for their “right” to infect patients with easily prevented pandemic influenza. Judge Halts Flu...
The flu, Donald Fagan, Dana Blankenhorn, and the fellow in the brite nightgown
W.C. Fields (above) famously called death the “fellow in the brite nightgown.” A few years ago Donald Fagan turned this into a catchy song. To those unconcerned...
If Vermont is #1 in health care, this country’s in big trouble
The steps we've taken, while half-measures to be sure, reflect the state's essential decency and civility. Yet Vermont's distinction is not in curing the health...