Climate change and public health
Category: Book & movie reviews
Climate change affects everyone--an idea hammered home in "Changing Planet, Changing Health."
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:30 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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Discussing causes, origins, evolution, and implications of disease and other phenomena.
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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. She also writes for The Panda's Thumb and previously for WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.
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On the value of pseudonyms
Category: Blogging news
National Geographic--new owners, new crummy policies.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 28 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"The Fever" by Sonia Shah
Category: Book & movie reviews
"The Fever" explores one of mankind's oldest foes, malaria--tracing it through history to the present day.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Nick Kristof on our food supply
Category: Infectious disease
Nick Kristof has an op/ed in today's NY Times noting some sober statistics about the food we eat: that it puts 350,00 people in the hospital and kills 5,000 in the U.S. every year. He also cites three of our...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:00 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
The Epidemic: Typhoid at Cornell
Category: Historical studies of disease
Echoes of a 1903 typhoid outbreak still resound today in our public health policies; a review of "The Epidemic" by David DeKok.
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 10:00 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Why don't "pro-lifers" support birth control?
Category: Politics
Planned Parenthood prevents abortions. Why don't right-wingers support it, then?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 3:15 PM • 34 Comments •
Science and the media: three new books
Category: Book & movie reviews
There has been a surge of interest recently in science denial, particularly revolving around the issue of vaccines. Last year saw the release of Michael Specter's Denialism; in the last few months, three others have been released: Seth Mnookin's Panic...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 9:00 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
HIV/AIDS PREVENTION; TIME FOR CHANGE
Category: AIDS/HIV
Student guest post by Francis Mawanda. HIV/AIDS is a major public health problem worldwide. To date, it is estimated that more than 60 million people have been infected with HIV and more than 25 million people have died as a...
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 5:10 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What does the WHO's pandemic scale mean? And why is anyone worried about this?
Category: General Epidemiology
What's the big deal, and why predict the "aporkalypse"?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 2:10 PM • 21 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Obama: end malaria deaths by 2015
Category: Malaria
Malaria kills a child every thirty seconds; what do the candidates plan to do about it?
Posted by Tara C. Smith at 1:35 PM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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