Tag: Public Health
guest post by Robert T. Maupin, Jr. This past week has born witness to reports of a groundbreaking medical breakthrough in HIV treatment resulting in the reported “cure” of an infant believed to have a pregnancy-acquired early HIV infection. The infant described in the New York Times report was born to a mother who was…
News and Notes JHU Press Publications Recognized for Excellence by AAP’s PROSE Awards Four JHU Press publications were honored recently at the prestigious Association of American Publishers’ Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (the PROSE Awards). In the category of science, technology, and medicine, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics: A Journal of Qualitative Research garnered an…
Guest post by Lawrence Rosenthal The tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary have produced not only a national debate about firearms violence, but also a national debate about constitutional law. Overhanging the latter debate is the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,…
guest post by Alexandra M. Lord In 1937, the United States Public Health Service (PHS) took its most daring step forward to date. In a short pamphlet aimed at all Americans, the nation’s foremost public health organization gravely informed readers that “the use of the rubber (condom) during sexual intercourse . . . protects both…
By Greg Britton, editorial director On December 17, 2012, three days after the devastating shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, JHU Press director Kathleen Keane received a call from the office of the president of Johns Hopkins University. Ronald J. Daniels wanted to do something about the epidemic of gun violence in America, and he…
The staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 lives every year in the U.S.—is an urgent public health issue that demands effective policies informed by research and data that will prevent gun violence. On January 14th and 15th, 2013, the Johns Hopkins University will host the Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy…
The staggering toll of gun violence—which claims 31,000 lives every year in the U.S.—is an urgent public health issue that demands effective policies informed by research and data that will prevent gun violence. On January 14th and 15th, 2013, the Johns Hopkins University will host the Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America: Informing Policy…
Guest post by Maxwell J. Mehlman In a November article for the New England Journal of Medicine, Harvard law professors Michelle Mello and Glenn Cohen argue that in upholding the Affordable Care Act's individual insurance mandate as a tax the Supreme Court "has highlighted an opportunity for passing creative new public health laws.” As a…
guest post by Peter Beilenson, MD, MPH As the former Baltimore City Health Commissioner, I spent thirteen years working with Mayors Kurt Schmoke and Martin O’Malley trying to address the myriad issues affecting a large city. Thus, I am particularly distressed that virtually none of the 360 minutes allotted to the four debates between the…
Guest post by Sue Friedman, DVM, Rebecca Sutphen, MD, and Kathy Steligo After soliciting input from health care experts and the public, the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently reissued guidelines on ovarian cancer screening for women who are at average risk for the disease. According to the USPSTF, “No new evidence was found…