Public Health

Five years ago, Austin, Indiana experienced the worst drug-fueled HIV outbreak ever to hit rural America. Today, about 75% of patients that were a part of this outbreak are undetectable for HIV. Despite the strides taken to reduce HIV incidence in Austin, the CDC has determined 220 U.S. counties…

A team of four, led by physician assistant Brett Feldman, search for sick homeless individuals living on the streets of Downtown Los Angeles. Street medicine teams like these are growing across the nation in order to provide for homeless populations who do not have access to healthcare. Feldman’s…

While nearly the entire country has legalized cannabis to some degree, it has recently been discovered that cannabis exposure during pregnancy can lead to significant health risks for the baby. A new study from researchers at Western University and Queen’s University saw that regular exposure to…

Carolyn Y. Johnson — The Washington Post Scientists are working to create a vaccine against the new coronavirus with a record-breaking speed — something they could have barely imagined only 10 years ago. Although, however fast the scientists work, the virus is still spreading more rapidly.…

The Wuhan coronavirus is believed to have started in a food market. There have been over 50 fatalities, and over 1,900 confirmed cases of the disease in 11 different countries. Canada has now reported its first case of the virus, and all that were in contact with the man in Toronto are being…

A recent study shows that microplastics, shorn from human products and carried by global trade winds, are now accumulating ubiquitously worldwide. Found trapped within the arctic snows, our tap water, the atmosphere, and our bodies, a tiny sniff of a spring breeze could result in thousands of…

Protests over a pro democracy movement have persisted in Hong Kong since June. A recent study finds that almost 2 million people in the city have experienced symptoms of PTSD following months of social unrest.For more information, click here.

According to the attorney’s general office, since Juul’s launch in 2015, youth vaping has doubled across the United States. A report states that e-cigarette use has risen 135% from 2017 to 2019 and sales directly from Juul account for 64% of the e-cigarette sales market. California is now taking…

A company renovated old pipes by using a new technique called cured-in-place pipes. The workers thread a polyester or vinyl ester resin sleeve through and underground pipe and heat it with steam or hot water. The sleeve then expands and hardens to form a plastic liner inside the old pipes. However,…

The current Ebola outbreak happening in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been specifically exacerbated by the civil unrest surrounding the outbreak areas interfering with the outbreak efforts. For example, there is a current vaccine for Ebola that is being used to slow the spread of…

A new study done by the group Everytown for Gun Safety shows that of the children who die from mass shootings, about three quarters of the children died in events that were linked to domestic violence. It is common in coverage about gun violence to not also include the incidences where the victims…

Federally funded gun violence research by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institute of Health (NIH) essentially was put to a complete stop by the Dickey Amendment when it was passed by the government in 1996. Since then, there has been gun violence research done by nonprofits and…

Many people mistake youth homelessness as living on the streets, but this is in fact not the case. Homeless youth are those living without stable housing, and commonly partake in "couch-surfing", which is jumping from couch to couch of their family and friends, but a couch is not a home. Federal…

A new study shows that 80 percent of adolescents around the world are not getting enough exercise. South Korea and the Philippines had the greatest levels of inactivity, while Bangladesh and India had the lowest level of inactivity. Just under 78 percent of boys did not meet the World Health…