Tobacco sales bans are complicated. But what we do know is that tobacco use is detrimental to health and there’s more work to be done to reduce its grip on our communities.
I spent yesterday in the emergency department of the Ottawa hospital. I was being treated for atrial fibrillation — the uncontrolled, rapid beating of my
Alex Woodruff is a Policy Analyst at Boston University School of Public Health. He tweets at @aewoodru. Research for this piece was supported by the Laura
Jennifer Doleac and Anita Mukherjee (D & M) have a controversial paper about policies to increase the use of Naloxone and the effects of those policies
Is it ever okay to publicly shame someone on the internet? There are many cases where people have been persecuted online, and suffered severe consequences, based
In 2012, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a policy statement in which they said that the benefits of male circumcision outweighed the risks of
The international humanitarian law of war requires that Medical personnel exclusively assigned to medical duties must be respected and protected in all circumstances. Article 19
From JAMA Neurology, “Variability of Brain Death Policies in the United States“: Importance Brain death is the irreversible cessation of function of the entire brain,
In JAMA, Anne R. Cappola and Garret A. FitzGerald argue that we need to change the term “conflict of interest” to “confluence of interest.” the term conflict of interest
I recently discovered a programming error I had made that wrecked something I had been working on for months. Not fun. But it helped me
There have been extraordinary developments involving the American Psychological Association (APA) and its involvement in the CIA’s use of torture during the war on terror.
