Fatty Foods are as Addictive as Cocaine?
You've probably heard the phrase on fast-food restaurant commercials, and you can even buy t-shirts with it: "Bacon makes everything better."Now we may have a better idea why.A new study shows that...
View ArticleFrom Fotonovelas to Field Work: Creative Approaches to Health Literacy...
Melvin Baron has spent his career educating the public about health and medicine, first as a pharmacist and then as a USC Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. He’s 77 now, and he confesses to some...
View ArticleCancer Screenings Hard Sell for Korean Americans
Korean Americans are the least likely minority group to have health insurance. Bo Kim reports on why and how this is affecting the health care of Korean Americans.
View ArticleRebecca Goldin
Rebecca Goldin is director of research for Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), a nonprofit media watchdog group affiliated with George Mason University, where she is an associate professor in the...
View ArticleLavonna Lewis
LaVonna Blair Lewis, Ph.D., MPH, is a Teaching Associate Professor at the USC School of Policy, Planning, and Development. Dr. Lewis joined the USC faculty in 1996and she was selected Professor of...
View ArticlePrenatal Programming: How Mothers' Health Affects Their Babies
Dr. Michael C. Lu's paradigm shift in medicine is called a "life course perspective": the idea that health is not isolated to stages of life, but that those stages are interconnected. It is the...
View ArticleRacial disparity in baby death rates
Racial disparity in baby death rates is not a new subject. It's a complex, insiduous, and, at times, inflammatory, issue. In my corner of the world, there are communities where the baby death rate is...
View ArticleA new life, but with diabetes
"It's the alcohol hangover," Gerardo Cuapio thought five years ago when he woke up thirsty and with blurred vision. National Health Journalism Fellow Pedro Frisneda tells the story of a man who was on...
View ArticleHealthy Homework: Convenience often trumps nutrition
Low prices, availability and aggressive targeted marketing are all factors that ensure children and teenagers are eating more fast food than ever before. The Network for a Healthy California is pushing...
View ArticleHigh Levels of Black Carbon Found in Chicago Air
When the Chicago City Council last week passed an ordinance to reduce emissions from construction equipment working on city jobs, it touched on a larger problem: harmful amounts of diesel exhaust in...
View ArticleNew FCC Journalism Report Paints Bleak Picture of Health Coverage
The long-awaited Federal Communications Commission report on American journalism, Information Needs of Communities, paints a poignant picture of the decline of health journalism at the nation’s...
View ArticleDr. Ian Lipkin and Dr. Mady Hornig: Hunting Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Viruses
Cutting edge technology may be the game changer in controversial disease.
View ArticleNotes on the Care Innovation Summit
Anyone who is concerned about the future transformation of the United States clinical delivery system should pay attention to the Care Innovations Summit.
View ArticleQ&A with Leigh Turner: Tracking Medical Tourism Consequences
Bioethicist Leigh Turner, recently under fire from a stem cell company he criticized for ethical problems, talks about his research on medical tourism.
View ArticleInfant formula study evokes range of reactions
Some headlines earlier this week made it sound like the reigning orthodoxy of exclusive breast-feeding was crumbling. The actual study turns out to be quite a bit more narrow and nuanced than the...
View ArticleFatty Foods are as Addictive as Cocaine?
You've probably heard the phrase on fast-food restaurant commercials, and you can even buy t-shirts with it: "Bacon makes everything better."Now we may have a better idea why.A new study shows that...
View ArticleBudget woes gut mental health care in Chicago; Can Medicaid expansion ease...
Mental health providers in Illinois acknowledge that the state is in a dire budget situation. They say they have become more resourceful, finding ways to continue serving their patients and hope that...
View ArticleFrom Fotonovelas to Field Work: Creative Approaches to Health Literacy...
Melvin Baron has spent his career educating the public about health and medicine, first as a pharmacist and then as a USC Associate Professor of Clinical Pharmacy. He’s 77 now, and he confesses to some...
View ArticleCancer Screenings Hard Sell for Korean Americans
Korean Americans are the least likely minority group to have health insurance. Bo Kim reports on why and how this is affecting the health care of Korean Americans.
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