Epidemic

Re-understanding Violence as We Had to Re-Understand Plague..To Cure It

Gary Slutkin | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Baltimore, Mit, Violence, Social Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Ceasefire, The Project on Justice in Times of Transition, Bubonic Plague, Gun Violence, Neuroscience, John Hopkins University, Chicago, Epidemic, Epidemiology, The Plague, Conflict Resolution, Saxelab, Chicago News
Gary Slutkin

Human history is filled with tragic blunders that fail to put their finger on the problem, and actually compose a "solution" that has no value. This is where we are today, relying on prisons as solutions to reducing the epidemics of violence.

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Is the Media Flunking an Epidemic Readiness Test?

Leslie Gerwin | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Avian Flu, Epidemics, College Health, Public Health, Bird Flu, Epidemic, Norovirus, Public Safety, Princeton, Princeton University, Norovirus Outbreak, Rider University, Media News
Leslie Gerwin

In a serious epidemic, people facing decisions that may have life or death consequences will need to trust their information sources. If health officials and the media lose their credibility, it may be impossible to recover.

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Are Haiti's Cholera Victims Warren Buffett's "Girls in the Convertible?"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 01.31.2012

Read More: Bill Clinton, United Nations, Fonkoze, Swiss Re, Haiti, Barack Obama, Berkshire Hathaway, Clinton Global Initiative, World Health Organization, Insurance, Micro Loans, Health Insurance, Women's Health, Cholera, Epidemic, Centers for Disease Control, Contagion, Regine Barjon, Buffett Rule, Warren Buffett, Ethics, Impact News
Georgianne Nienaber

Are Fonkoze and Mercy Corps unwittingly helping major stockholders in the reinsurance firm Swiss Re turn Haitian women into Buffett's "girl(s) in the convertible?"

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Uniting For Survivors Of Suicide Day

Laurenne Sala | Posted 01.20.2012

Read More: Suicide, Survivors of Suicide Day, Epidemic, Activism, International-Survivors-of-Suicide-Day, Impact News
Laurenne Sala

Saturday was the 13th Annual International Survivors of Suicide Day. "Survivors?" My friend asked. "That's the wrong word." But it isn't. Every...

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Lynne Peeples

As Cholera Spreads Through Developing Countries, Satellites Offer Hope

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Puerto Rico, Satellite Imagery, Bangladesh, Water, Haiti, Cholera, The Infection Loop, Epidemic, Climate Change, Prediction, Satellite, Green News

As cholera continues to ravage parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America -- reportedly reaching Puerto Rico and Hong Kong this week --...

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Marcus Baram

How Researchers Investigate The Source Of An Epidemic: Lots Of Detective Work, Add Science

HuffingtonPost.com | Marcus Baram | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: E. Coli Outbreak, Epidemic Outbreak, Centers for Disease Control, Sprout Epidemic, E.Coli, E.coli Outbreak, Epidemic, E. Coli, Disease Outbreak, Green News

NEW YORK -- After a few people turned up dead, officials sprang into action -- interviewing the next of kin, identifying suspects and pursuing leads. ...

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Not in My Back Yard -- And Not in Yours

Dr. Lynn C. Klotz | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Epidemic, Outbreak, Virus, Contagious Diseases, Sars, World News
Dr. Lynn C. Klotz

Investigations of such deadly pathogens as SARS should be conducted only in highest-security BSL-4 labs, tucked away in remote locations where any accident can be quickly contained.

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Prepare for the Next Conflict: Water Wars

Erik Rasmussen | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Global, Epidemic, Climate Change, Natural Resources, Water-Wars, Water Crisis, Green News
Erik Rasmussen

The planet is facing a 'water bankruptcy' and we are facing a gloomy future where the fight for the 'blue gold' is king.

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Dengue in Iquitos Peru

Peter Gorman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iquitos, Epidemic, Peru, Dengue, Home News
Peter Gorman

I've just gotten back from two months working in Iquitos, Peru and the surrounding jungle. There is an epidemic of dengue fever raging in the area

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The Epidemic Strikes Again

Erik Rasmussen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Drought, Epidemic, Climate Change, Farmers, China, Food Production, Farming, Davos, Agriculture, Fao, Climate Crisis, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News
Erik Rasmussen

China is just the latest victim of the climate epidemic that it is taking its toll around the globe with palpable, often immediate disasters and human suffering.

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Addressing a Global Killer This World Pneumonia Day

Karl Hofmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Pneumonia Day, Psi, Global Health, Global Coalition Against Child Pneumonia, Pneumonia, Epidemic, Development, World News
Karl Hofmann

Few Americans would guess that pneumonia kills more children than any other disease, but in many developing countries access to effective treatment is limited. So what's being done?

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Haiti: Ground Truthing Cholera in Mirebalais

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cholera Deaths, Mirebalais, Tomas, Ezili Danto, Cholera, Epidemic, Annapurna Nepalese Camp, Contagion, Haiti, Hlln, Earthquake, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

The Haitian Health Ministry estimated that the cholera outbreak in Haiti is resulting in an average of 32 deaths every 24 hours since the epidemic began on October 20.

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Dispatch From Haiti: "Controlled Chaos" of Cholera

Dr. Jon LaPook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Haiti Cholera Outbreak, Cholera, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti Cholera, Haiti, Epidemic, Dr. Jon Lapook, Video, World News
Dr. Jon LaPook

On Saturday afternoon we visited St. Nicolas Hospital in St. Marc, the current center of the cholera outbreak. It was awful.

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The Real Health Care Reform Program

Dr. Jonny Bowden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Childhood Obesity, Health Care Reform, Epidemic, Diabetes, Obesity, Weight, Weight-Loss, Health Care, Healthy Living News
Dr. Jonny Bowden

Both diabetes and obesity can be largely prevented and their staggering costs -- physically and financially -- can be substantially reduced.

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The Greatest Failure of the Medical and Public Health Professions

Joseph A. Califano Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Addiction, Califano, Drugs, Abuse, Health Care, HIV/AIDS, Drug Addiction, Illegal Drugs, Public Health, Epidemic, Betty Ford, New York News
Joseph A. Califano Jr.

The greatest and most costly failure of the medical profession and public health community is their failure to explain to the American people that addiction to alcohol and other drugs is a disease.

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Obesity, Demystified

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy, Qatar, Obesity, Weight, Diet, Katz, Global, Dr. David L. Katz, Health, Nutrition, Exercise, Food, Epidemic, News, Times, Conditions, Modern, Healthy Living News
David Katz, M.D.

I believe most people understand that epidemic obesity is overwhelmingly accounted for by too many calories in, too few calories out. But in many quarters, there is surprising resistance to that notion.

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What Might Health Care Reform Have to Do With H1N1?

Terry Leach | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: H1N1 Influenza, Health Care Reform, Politics, Living, Capitalism, Family, Universal Coverage, Health Care Debate, Swine Flu, Epidemic, Politics News
Terry Leach

Policies skewed toward the maximization of profits for health insurance and, quite possibly, pharmaceutical companies, may not be good for American families.

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Wake up Medical Establishment: There's an Autism Epidemic!

Dr. Bob Sears | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Autism, Cdc, Epidemic, Prevalence, Healthy Living News
Dr. Bob Sears

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study last week that reveals a dramatic increase in the incidence of autism over just a four-year period.

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Networking Governments

Gary Hart | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Government, Public Policy, Epidemic, International Relations, World War II, Cold War, Swine Flue, Harry Truman, World News
Gary Hart

More can be done in linking national research laboratories, networking financial regulatory regimes, linking universities, networking environmental protection efforts, and the list goes on.

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Turning Cold Medicine into a Controlled Substance?

Anthony Papa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crystal Meth, Epidemic, Medication, Cold Remedies, Methamphetamine, Drug War, Politics News
Anthony Papa

As it stands now, consumers with colds across the country must present a photo ID and sign a log in order to purchase cold and allergy medicines containing pseudoephedrine.

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We're Fighting the Wrong Pandemic

Barry Sears | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Zone Diet, Epidemic, Swine Flu Pandemic, Silent Inflammation, Swine Flu, Healthy Living News
Barry Sears

There is a worldwide pandemic that does currently exist, but no one seems concerned about. This is the pandemic spread of silent inflammation.

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The Meaning of Swine Flu, the Universe, and Everything

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cdc, World Health Organization, H1n1, Swine Flu, Ban Ki Moon, Swine Flu Pandemic, Pandemic, Epidemic, World News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

We went from apocalypse to afterthought in about two weeks, and now we're swinging back. Here's a way to reconcile some of the different and seemingly contradictory perspectives we've been hearing.

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The Return of Swine Flu -- A Death in the U.S. and Uncertainty

Richard P. Wenzel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Swine Flu Pandemic, Swine Flu, Pandemic, Swine Flu Mexico, Flu, Avain Flu, Epidemic, Healthy Living News
Richard P. Wenzel

We react to each influenza that visits itself upon the citizens of the world as though we have discovered something new. The only really new things are our surprise and consistent inability to recall all of the lessons from prior visitations.

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Swine Flu's Next Stop: The Pantheon of Stillborn Pandemics

Dan Pashman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pandemic, Sars, Epidemic, Pandemics, Swine Flu Pandemic, Politics News
Dan Pashman

Even if swine flu eventually kills hundreds of Americans, it still won't be nearly as lethal as the regular flu, which has killed thousands of Americans already this year, just like it does every year.

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Swine Influenzas

Max Fraad Wolff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Economy, Economic Crisis, Swine Flu, Financial Crisis, Mexico, Epidemic, Media, Viruses, International, Business News
Max Fraad Wolff

We have been dealing with economic swine flu for the better part of two years now. The speculative fever that gripped the world moved like a virus. Almost all were infected.

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