Jennifer Nuzzo, director of the Pandemic Center and Professor of Epidemiology at Brown University, reviews depictions of epidemics in Twilight (2008), The Last of Us (2023), Outbreak (1995), and Contagion (2011), and discusses how they relate to real...
Thirty percent of all homeless people in the United States live in California, despite the state representing just under 12 percent of the nation’s population. The state’s previous policies aimed at combating homelessness—like affordable housin...
Here is our reality: Despite being the world’s largest spender on healthcare, the United States has faced higher Covid-19 death rates and worse Covid-19 outcomes than any other large, high-income nation. The pandemic has revealed the deficiencies o...
The residents of Yazoo County, Mississippi were confronted with a danger the world had yet to witness in February 2020: a carbon dioxide pipeline explosion. Within minutes, residents were dazed, foaming at the mouth, and left unconscious by the green...
The residents of Yazoo County, Mississippi were confronted with a danger the world had yet to witness in February 2020: a carbon dioxide pipeline explosion. Within minutes, residents were dazed, foaming at the mouth, and left unconscious by the green...
The precedent-defying Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic has reignited a conversation about sex education policy. With abortion made illegal in many states accross the nation, many have argued that American teens need mor...
The precedent-defying Supreme Court case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Clinic has reignited a conversation about sex education policy. With abortion made illegal in many states accross the nation, many have argued that American teens need mor...
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, changed the way Americans think about sugar and, most importantly, how t...
America’s favorite treat, sugar, is not as sweet as it seems. The sugar industry’s manipulation of a 1960s research review, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, changed the way Americans think about sugar and, most importantly, how t...
In spring of this year, Tennessee legislators proposed a bill to create alternative legal pathways to marriage that left out an essential guideline—a minimum age requirement —prompting a major media uproar. The common law marriages created by the...
In spring of this year, Tennessee legislators proposed a bill to create alternative legal pathways to marriage that left out an essential guideline—a minimum age requirement —prompting a major media uproar. The common law marriages created by the...
When we enter a grocery store, we are immediately bombarded with all sorts of buzzwords: “cage-free,” “free range,” “sustainable,” “grass fed.” The list of labels is endless. Most of us are happy to pay a small premium for these produ...
When we enter a grocery store, we are immediately bombarded with all sorts of buzzwords: “cage-free,” “free range,” “sustainable,” “grass fed.” The list of labels is endless. Most of us are happy to pay a small premium for these produ...
Few public assistance programs in the United States have attracted as much political attention as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). These progra...
Few public assistance programs in the United States have attracted as much political attention as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC). These progra...
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most universally ratified human rights treaty in the history of the United Nations. The treaty lays out childrens’ civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, recognizing that...
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is the most universally ratified human rights treaty in the history of the United Nations. The treaty lays out childrens’ civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights, recognizing that...
Drug overdoses in the United States have grown enormously over the past five years. As a consequence, public health officials across the country have lobbied for harm reduction policies. In December 2021, New York City became the first city in the Un...
Drug overdoses in the United States have grown enormously over the past five years. As a consequence, public health officials across the country have lobbied for harm reduction policies. In December 2021, New York City became the first city in the Un...
N95s, highly-protective masks that filter out at least 95 percent of airborne viral particles, are some of the most coveted products in the world. One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, their allocation has been bungled in nearly every way possi...
N95s, highly-protective masks that filter out at least 95 percent of airborne viral particles, are some of the most coveted products in the world. One year into the global COVID-19 pandemic, their allocation has been bungled in nearly every way possi...
50% of sexually active people will have at least one sexually transmitted infection by the age of 25. The frequency and severity of the infection, including the probability of it developing into an STD as well as the likelihood that the patient will ...
50% of sexually active people will have at least one sexually transmitted infection by the age of 25. The frequency and severity of the infection, including the probability of it developing into an STD as well as the likelihood that the patient will ...
For the busy American household with disposable income, the delivery meal kit is a dream come true. It arrives at your doorstep in an insulated box that has mysteriously kept the produce and meat refrigerated, even though you remember it shipping fro...
For the busy American household with disposable income, the delivery meal kit is a dream come true. It arrives at your doorstep in an insulated box that has mysteriously kept the produce and meat refrigerated, even though you remember it shipping fro...
K-12 students are adapting to completing their curriculum from their bedrooms against the backdrop of the snowballing social, physical, and mental traumas caused by COVID-19. They’re missing their friends; they’re fatigued by gazing on a gallery ...
K-12 students are adapting to completing their curriculum from their bedrooms against the backdrop of the snowballing social, physical, and mental traumas caused by COVID-19. They’re missing their friends; they’re fatigued by gazing on a gallery ...