Tag: Public Health
Kelley Squazzo joined the staff here at JHU Press at the end of last month after working for five years at Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, where she held positions as a managing editor in medical education and an acquisitions editor … Continue reading →
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Athena Kourtis Measles is very rare in countries with high rates of vaccination. In the United States, as in some other areas, measles transmission is considered to have been interrupted…
The Doctor Is In is an occasional series where JHU Press authors discuss the latest developments and news in health and medicine. Guest post by Athena Kourtis Measles is very rare in countries with high rates of vaccination. In the United States, as in some other areas, measles transmission is considered to have been interrupted…
They say you can't judge a book by its cover. Whether that's true or not is a post for another time, but it makes me wonder this--can you judge a journal by its title? Outsiders may look at Progress in Community Health Partnerships and wonder what they might find between the covers. But those within the…
By Brendan Coyne, exhibits and awards manager If you've been paying any attention at all to our political discourse in recent weeks you know that reproduction is a hot and controversial topic. From Susan G. Komen for the Cure to insuring contraception for women, uncomfortable questions about sex and power and religion have forced their…
Guest post by Dan Morhaim, M.D. Humans are the only creatures that can contemplate their own demise. They might as well get ready for it. The best way to avoid an unwanted death panel is to set up your own. --Jay Hancock, "Plan your end-of-life care or others will do it for you," The Baltimore…