Exploring Health from the Center for the Study of Human Health at Emory University brings world-renowned scholars, scientists, and journalists together with student leaders to redefine the construct of health and well-being.
By News Team member Commercial surrogacy in India is a controversial topic of debate in bioethics. India’s attempts to regulate and control commercial surrogacy struggles to find a balance between two conflicting interests: preventing the exploitation of surrogates and protecting…
Join us for a free, online screening of Birth Wars and discussion with award-winning filmmaker Janet Jarman on October. 14th from 7-9:00 p.m. Told through deeply personal stories, Birth Wars chronicles a power struggle between doctors and midwives in Mexico about whose vision…
Photo by Kira auf der Heide on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Lexi Rosmarin We typically think of mental health as being just that - the intricacies of the mind and brain working to control our thoughts and feelings. However, our mental…
Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels (rights-free) A summary of important health news from the past week. How the Pandemic Led to the Rise of Virtual Rehab By: Meagan Drillinger Since the start of the pandemic, telehealth treatment has been…
This week's recommendation for Health Beyond the Blog is the novel, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande. As a surgeon specializing in endocrine and general surgery, Gawande explores the concept of death in current-day…
A summary of important health news from the past week. Georgia's 'heartbeat' law to be argued in federal appeals court By: Kate Brumback and The Associated Press A federal appeals court plans to hear arguments Friday on whether it should…