Public health - Topics

Why are chronic diseases now killing more people than infections? Cancer clusters: when a neighborhood suspects its water Obesity as a disease: biology vs blame Alcohol on a diet: how much is really too much? Clinical trial diversity: why representation changes outcomes The opioid crisis: how painkillers created an epidemic Community health workers: the fix nobody notices Evidence-based medicine: what levels of proof really mean Ultra-processed food: how bad is it really? What can we learn from the history of pandemics? Health disparities: why your zip code predicts your lifespan What is the difference between quarantine and isolation? Why do pandemics tend to start in crowded cities and live animal markets? Hepatitis B and C: the silent epidemics in your liver How contact tracing worked and where it broke down during COVID-19 Why is handwashing still the most powerful infection control? Monkeypox (mpox): how a rare disease became a global emergency Loneliness as a health risk: the epidemic nobody sees Wastewater surveillance: how sewage predicts the next outbreak How does cholera spread after disasters and wars? How did ancient cities manage sanitation? Why doctors make such difficult patients themselves Violent patients and the incident reports that go nowhere Why did life expectancy barely move before the 20th century? When a health warning reaches the public before the agency agrees on it Rural practice: the same skills for less pay and no specialist to call at 2 a.m. Physician suicide rates and the stigma that stops a colleague from asking Why do people with a college degree live years longer than those who dropped out? Medical errors and the professional silence that keeps them from being reported Men in nursing and the assumptions patients keep making Scope of practice: what a nurse may do in one state and cannot in the next How do relief teams stop cholera from spreading in a flooded city?