Photo by Thomas Millot on Unsplash New York state bans most flavors of e-cigarettes By: Jen Christensen On September 17, Governor Andrew Cuomo wrote an executive order to ban sales of most flavored e-cigarettes to curb teen vaping. The ban will last 90…
By: Yeeun Lee "I'll believe it when I see it." We live in a visually dominated world. From images on social media to our initial perceptions of people, what we physically see holds immense value. In fact, imagery is so…
By: Imani Brooks September is National Preparedness Month. At the start of this month, Hurricane Dorian demonstrated the serious need to learn about how hurricanes are in fact a public health issue. Hurricane season runs from June 1 to November…
By: Deanna Altomara This past semester, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study health in three different countries: Vietnam, South Africa, and Argentina. While I was stunned by many things I learned, I was particularly struck by the history of…
By: Azzairia Jackson-Sherrod Editors’ Note: This post is from a Human Health course titled “Nutrition and Health Mythbusters” taught by Dr. Myra Woodworth-Hobbs. You can read more about the class and assignment here as well as read another student's work…
By Katherine Lewis On August 1st, 2018, the Ministry of Health of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) announced an outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri. The outbreak is currently classified…
By: Yeeun Lee “Superfoods.” The term is constantly used and seen throughout the media, but what does it really mean? Initially coined for marketing purposes, the term is still used today as a selling strategy. While no scientific definition exists,…
By: Diya Gopalan Most people haven't heard of orphan diseases. That is because the term "orphan disease" refers either to a condition that only impacts a small number of individuals or as one that has been neglected by physicians. No…
Editor's note: This article is the last of a two-part series on the legal and ethical implications of the modern opioid crisis. You can read the first part here. The Sackler family, who made their fortune in Purdue Pharma and…
By: Katherine Lewis Editor's note: This article is the first of a two-part series on the legal and ethical implications of the modern opioid crisis. The second can be found here. In 2016, Forbes magazine named the Sackler family the…