Note: This blog is a follow-up from a previous post discussing the potential effects of the Whole Women’s Health v. Hellerstedt case. That post can be found here. Roughly four months after hearing oral arguments, the Supreme Court of the United States handed down its 5-3 decision in Whole Women’s […]

Antibiotic resistance is upon us and affects both human and animal health. In a May 2016 report commissioned by United Kingdom (UK) Prime Minister David Cameron, Jim O’Neil, economist most widely known for coining the term BRICs for the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China and Commercial Secretary to Her […]

In a call to action at his final State of the Union Address last January, President Barack Obama charged Vice President Joe Biden with the duty of overseeing a new initiative to cure cancer “as we know it,” called the Cancer Moonshot. This comes exactly one year after the death […]

Malnutrition causes about one-third of deaths among children under five. More than half of these deaths are because of inappropriate feeding practices during the first year of life. As a way to improve young children’s health and nutrition, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that mothers breastfeed their children within […]

A major push has been under way by medical service providers and their technology outsourcing companies to digitalize electronic records and the attendant Personal Health Information (PHI) that is generated every time we get medical care. In fact, digitalizing healthcare records is widely thought of as one of the best […]