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Introducing News Team Member Katherine Lewis

January 23, 2019
Katherine Lewis
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After â€‹becoming interested in nutrition in middle school, I considered studying nutrition and becoming a dietician. Eating disorders were close to my heart for a variety of reasons, and I was very interested in the relationship between food and individual health.…

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Weekly Health Digest: Climate Change and 10 Global Health Threats

January 22, 2019
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Climate change: Which vegan milk is best? Clara Guibourg and Helen Briggs With veganism on the rise, there has been an introduction of a variety of non-dairy milk alternatives to the market, raising questions of the effects on the environment.…

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Seeing the Positives in Negative Results: Why it is Important to Publish ‘Negative’ Research Findings

December 13, 2018
Jemimah Kim
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The weekly news cycle is routinely scattered with announcements of new scientific research that promises to change our understanding of health and disease. Unsurprisingly, the research that ends up as news headlines tends to be the more exciting information–scientists located…

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School Dropout Crisis: A Public Health Intervention Approach

December 11, 2018
Ovidio Vasquez
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In 2000, the overall high school dropout rate in the United States was 10.9 percent. Most recently, in 2016, this dropout rate was 6.1 percent. Crisis averted, right? Not quite. Even though the statistics are headed towards an overall dropout rate…

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Weekly Health Digest: Flu Shots, CBD, and High Insulin Prices

December 10, 2018
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Most US adults have not gotten a flu shot for this mild season Susan Scutti According to a new survey from NORC, a research organization at the University of Chicago, most U.S. adults have not gotten a flu shot this…

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BiDil: The Ethical Dilemma of a Race-Based Pharmaceutical

December 6, 2018
Jemimah Kim
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Heart failure, a condition under the umbrella term of heart disease, is one of the leading causes of death in the United States. Heart failure occurs when the heart cannot pump enough blood and oxygen to support the other organs in the…

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Health Policy Update

December 4, 2018
Jemimah Kim
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In this latest health policy update, I focus on news surrounding the impact of the midterm elections on healthcare, current threats to LGBTQ health, and the ongoing gun control debate. The Affordable Care Act Following the midterm elections, in which…

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Weekly Health Digest: Obamacare, Measles, and Climate Change

December 3, 2018
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Reminder: Deadline to Sign Up for Obamacare Is December 15 Cathy Cassata Despite the many changes that the Trump Administration has made to the Affordable Care Act, the law is still in place. The December 15th deadline to enroll in…

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From the Outside-In: Drug Use in Prisons

November 29, 2018
Jemimah Kim
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In the midst of the opioid epidemic, over 115 peopleare dying from overdose every day in the United States. Across the country, law enforcement officials have rushed to stem drug sales and use, cracking down on those found to be in…

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Health Outlook for Caravans of Central Americans

November 27, 2018
Ovidio Vasquez
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Since October, we have seen a lot of media attention on a group of Hondurans, Salvadorans, Nicaraguans and Guatemalans as they travelled out of their native countries en route to the United States. There has been much speculation about the…

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