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United Nations: More Developing Countries Funding Their Own Anti-HIV Programs
DevEx’s John Alliage Morales has a fascinating report out today from Vietnam, where rapidly improving standards of living have vaulted the country up the usual U.N. and World Bank prosperity lists. The...
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Accentuate the Positive—and See Your Kids Learn More
It’s a trope that we learn more from failure than success—hence Charlie Brown’s “then that must make me the smartest person in the world.” So why don’t we learn more from bad news than good? According...
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Why Is Breakbone Fever Back in Florida?
For the second time this year, health departments in Florida and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) are reporting cases of dengue fever. Dengue, which is spread by mosquitoes, was, until recently,...
View ArticleJails and Emergency Rooms Are Our De Facto Mental Health Clinics
The last time Virginia state senator Creigh Deeds made national headlines, the occasion was a shocking family tragedy. In November, Deeds’ son Gus, who had been on and off medication for bipolar...
View ArticleHow Many Cigarettes Make You a Smoker?
Quick quiz: 1. Have you smoked more than 100 cigarettes in your life? 2. Do you still smoke once in a while now as well, including at least one cigarette in the last 30 days? 3. Are you a smoker? If...
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Are the Fitness Benefits of Riding Your Bike Worth the Risk of an Accident?
It was just another morning commute. That is, until a bus driver ran a red light, turned right, and drove straight into Ann-Doerthe Hass Jensen. The bus knocked the social worker off her bike, trapping...
View ArticleSaturated Fads: Butter Is Back Only Because Our Biases Remain
A report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine on March 17 left meat eaters salivating. The meta-analysis of over 70 studies explored the comparative impact of saturated fat (found in meat,...
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Rocky Mountain High or Reefer Madness? The Risks of Legal Pot in Colorado
I walked through clouds of marijuana smoke Friday night to get to the Denver Nuggets basketball game. The sweet smell lingering in the air reminded me less of a family event and more of the time I saw...
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Banning Chocolate Milk Was a Bad Choice
Does chocolate milk belong in schools? Health experts, policymakers, and concerned parents have been at this debate for years now. On one side, school districts, like those of Washington, D.C., and Los...
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What Steve Jobs’ Death Teaches Us About Public Health
The late Steve Jobs will go down in history for many reasons—as the industry leader who built the world’s most valuable company, the most famous promoter of black turtlenecks, and the subject of not...
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The Hidden Health Costs of the Great Recession
This June will mark five years since the Great Recession officially came to an end, and amidst an uncertain recovery, the nation has started taking stock of what the disaster cost us. A landmark report...
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Chimpanzees Gave Herpes to Humans
Two-thirds of humans are eternally infected by at least one of the two strains of herpes: the embarrassing mouth-inflicting cold sore variety or the awkward nether region-inhabiting sexually...
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Can Watching TV Improve Your Health?
TV dramas have always had a strained relationship with verisimilitude. In real life, intelligence agents don’t find themselves with 24 hours to save the world. Guns don’t carry unlimited ammunition....
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Brazil’s Billion-Dollar Gym Experiment
The Baptist church in Arthur Lundgren district sits perched on a hill overlooking the sprawling metropolis of Recife, northeast Brazil. It is a little after dawn as the crowd starts to gather and the...
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Sequenced in the U.S.A.: A Desperate Town Hands Over Its DNA
In a lot of ways, the people of Kannapolis, North Carolina, are lucky. Eleven years ago, the community, about 25 miles northwest of Charlotte, was the scene of the largest single layoff in North...
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