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Endangered Species Protections: Are We Doing Enough?
One decade ago, the iconic Bald Eagle lived up to the American dream by defying extinction. At the dawn of the 20th century, the majestic bird of prey found itself in peril, and not from natural...
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Healthcare Digitization: Balancing Public Health and Privacy
Many aspects of our lives have escaped the shackles of the real world and gone digital. Most of our music, movies, work files, and even financial data exist in digital and cloud-based worlds with no...
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Can a Space Fence Really Fix the Problem of Space Trash?
When we envision space, we tend to imagine an intense beauty unknown to this world. We certainly don’t imagine a junk yard. But what is space actually like? Well, unfortunately it seems to be moving a...
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American Health Care: Last Place Among Peer Nations in Latest Study
The United States spends more money on health care than any other developed country. At the same time, studies find that patients in other countries enjoy better quality and more accessible health care...
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The United States Isn’t Immune to Counterfeit Drugs
Counterfeit drugs pose both domestic and global threats, presenting serious health risks worldwide. Although the issue is most prevalent outside the United States, Americans aren’t immune to the...
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Pregnant Without Insurance? Prepare for a Big Bill
The miracle of childbirth morphs into a financial nightmare for mothers without insurance or without maternity coverage in their insurance. While we all know having a baby involves much more than a...
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Are We Spending Enough on Public Health?
Treating people when they’re already sick is like beating back invaders who have already breached your defenses. In either scenario, prevention through good defense saves money, time, and lives. But...
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Trusting Scientific Research: Who Funds Our Opinions?
You just sunk every penny you have into opening a restaurant. After spending years perfecting every detail from menus to music, you forgot one major element: an advertising budget. How will you make...
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Vicarious Trauma: What is it and How Can Legal Culture Make it Worse?
Post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, is often the subject of daily life experiences and intense internet debates on topics such as trigger warnings or the United States’ use of drones. Rates of...
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Falling Fertility: The Impact of Declining Birth Rates
A report recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics revealed some good news for our nation’s population growth for the first time since the beginning of the Great Recession....
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Infant Intersex Surgery: Genital Mutilation in the U.S.?
While many people from the United States often concern themselves with “female genital mutilation” in other countries, very little mainstream media sources focus on the nonconsensual surgeries on...
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What’s in Your Food?: A Look at Regulating the Food Industry
A recent report from several environmental consumer advocacy groups graded of 25 of the leading fast food restaurants on the use of antibiotics in the meat they use, and for anyone concerned with the...
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Sexism in Science: Bias Beyond the Lab
Sponsored Content Lately, we’ve been inundated with information on women’s underrepresentation in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). But what doesn’t get a lot of...
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Malaria: Did Scientists Finally Find a Solution?
Malaria is one of the world’s oldest and deadliest diseases. Although it is most prevalent in Africa, everyone is susceptible. Around fifteen hundred cases develop yearly here in the United States....
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Frozen Embryo Donation and Adoption: A New Trend?
For many couples, being unable to conceive naturally is a heartbreaking piece of news. Many turn to in vitro fertilization (IVF), which is successful about 30 percent of the time. However, when in...
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The Personal Care Products Safety Act: Modernizing Outdated Regulations
Sponsored Content Everyone uses cosmetics, lotions, soaps, and other personal care items as a part of daily life, and we trust that those products are safe. But who actually determines whether or not a...
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Legal Battles over the Mirena IUD: What’s Next?
In 2011, a personal injury complaint was filed in regards to Mirena, an intrauterine device (IUD) manufactured by Bayer Healthcare, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies worldwide. Since then,...
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Perverse Incentives: Are Needle Exchanges Good Policy?
To most people, it is a matter of common sense and good policy that governments should not subsidize illegal or immoral activities on the part of their citizens. The belief that governments should not...
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Should the Government Be Involved in Promoting Healthy Lifestyles?
Nearly 70 percent of American adults are overweight or obese. We spend trillions of dollars every year on healthcare and about half of that budget is spent treating so-called lifestyle diseases like...
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Mental Health Care: Should We Be Treating the Mind the Same As The Body?
Every year 38,000 people in the United States kill themselves. In America, we have more people who are victims of suicide than are victims of homicide. Or car accidents. Or prostate cancer. Yet mental...
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Special K: “The Next Big Thing” in Psychiatry?
An estimated 15.7 million adults in the United States experienced at least one major depressive episode in 2014. Rates of depression have been on the rise in the United States for some time, causing...
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Sleep Drugs: What Every Woman Should Know
Sponsored Content Sleepless nights; nights full of tossing and turning. It happens to all of us–but for some it’s more frequent than others. In fact, an estimated 50 to 70 million American adults...
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What Explains Life Expectancy in the United States?
Studying life expectancy allows us to understand what factors help people live longer and how changes in conditions affect people’s lives. Recent research shows how life expectancy varies among...
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Did the Program Meant to Rescue the VA Healthcare System Make it Worse?
Two years ago, Congress created a new program, the Veteran’s Choice Program, to fix the well-publicized problems facing health services at the Veterans Affairs Administration, known as the VA. These...
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Suboxone Restrictions: Is it Possible to Fight Fire with Fire?
One of the tendencies people have when combating a problem is the tendency to over-correct. Rather than taking a moderate approach in the first place, they move from one extreme to another. Our drug...
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Big Data: A Revolution for Women’s Healthcare
Sponsored Content Since 1990, the Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR®) has been advocating for innovation in women’s healthcare. The organization is on the cutting edge of the newest research...
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