Category: Health and Medicine

At APHA this weekend, new book highlights the urgency of obesity interventions

Guest post by Gillian Regina Barclay and Howell Wechsler Today on the blog, we are pleased to publish the appreciative foreword to Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions. This just-published book, edited by Virginia M.Brennan, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, will debut at the American Public Health Association annual meeting this weekend…

At APHA this weekend, new book highlights the urgency of obesity interventions

Guest post by Gillian Regina Barclay and Howell Wechsler Today on the blog, we are pleased to publish the appreciative foreword to Obesity Interventions in Underserved Communities: Evidence and Directions. This just-published book, edited by Virginia M.Brennan, Shiriki K. Kumanyika, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, will debut at the American Public Health Association annual meeting this weekend…

Facing the Challenge Offered by Graphic Medicine

Guest Post by Susan Squier and J. Ryan Marks Since its beginning, the journal Configurations has fostered “the multi-disciplinary study of the relations among literature and language, the arts, science, medicine, and technology.” Those are the words of editors Melissa Littlefield and Rajani Sudan when they assumed the editorship two years ago. The pair promised the journal…

The history of generic drugs is far from generic

Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…

The history of generic drugs is far from generic

Guest post by Jeremy A. Greene I entered medical school during a strange interlude in the history of drug marketing. Perhaps you also remember those confusing months in 1997, after the FDA issued statements supporting widespread direct-to-consumer promotion of prescription drugs, but before the regulation of these ads had been fully worked out. Pharmaceutical brand…