Photo by Maru Lombardo on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Adaora Yvonne Ntukogu Impact of COVID-19 on Sexual Health Services and Safe Sex Practices The COVID-19 pandemic has taken over news headlines for months. As of December 21, 2020, 217 countries and…
Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash (rights-free) By: Gordon Chan Covid-19 and the seasonal flu are both infectious respiratory illnesses, yet they are caused by very different viruses. Covid-19 is caused by infection with the virus Sars-CoV-2, whereas the flu…
Photo by Seth Doyle on Unsplash (rights-free) Children under the age of five are often the first to experience symptoms of an illness, a side effect of an underdeveloped immune system. In 2019, an estimated 5.2 million children under the…
Photo by Jérémy Stenuit on Unsplash (rights-free) Americans suffer different rates of illness and disease due to healthcare disparities, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made this worse. By: Jocelyn Spizman Healthcare disparities are the varying burdens of disease and…
A summary of important health news from the past week Studies Begin to Untangle Obesity’s Role in Covid-19 By Katherine J. Wu With no official treatment or cure for Covid-19, researchers are studying what factors can determine how some patients…
Debora MacKenzie is an accomplished science journalist investigating emerging infectious diseases for over 35 years. Along with writing for outlets such as New Scientist, she recently published her own book titled COVID-19: The Pandemic that Never Should Have Happened and…
Photo by Robina Weermeijer on Unsplash (rights-free) Health Jawns is a podcast series from Human Health professor Dr. Chris Eagle. See here for more. In this episode of Health Jawns, Dr. Chris Eagle of Emory's Center for the Study of Human Health interviews…
Photo by visuals on Unsplash (rights-free) Health Yawns is a podcast series from Human Health professor Dr. Chris Eagle. See here for more. On this episode of Health Jawns, Chris Eagle interviews Dr. Craig Klugman, professor of Bioethics and Health Humanities (DePaul University)…
Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash (rights-free) A summary of important health news from the past week China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years By Julie Zaugg and Jared Peng A new seaweed-based drug,…
By: Chris Eagle What are the major ethical issues of the Coronavirus Pandemic? What is the day-to-day experience of ‘frontline’ healthcare workers? Why are so many conspiracy theories appearing to explain the true cause of the Pandemic? “Health Jawns” is a new Health…