This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A simple language intervention could help boost vaccination rates, especially when presenting information to people in bilingual populations, according to a new study. The findings show that between two groups…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Isimar Lopez tells her fellow Bronx residents she can get them a free, door-to-door ride with Uber to get a COVID-19 vaccine, they don’t always jump at the chance.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before COVID-19, there was tuberculosis. Twentieth century British physician Thomas McKeown controversially proposed that the sharp declines in infectious disease death rates in the late 1900s were due to improved…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Booster vaccines fortify the antibody response sufficiently to deliver a substantial increase in protection against the Omicron variant, researchers say. The Omicron variant is more prone to escape antibodies produced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The COVID-19 vaccine has been in our lives for a full year, and while it’s helped us move forward in our fight to defeat the pandemic — with just over 46% of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The risk of another pandemic is high. Our 21st century way of life increases this risk. Climate change, intensive farming and international travel, enable diseases to spread across the world…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pandemic has brought many tricky terms and ideas from epidemiology into everyone’s lives. Two particularly complicated concepts are vaccine efficacy and effectiveness. These are not the same thing. And…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When two inspectors showed up at a juvenile prison in north Texas late last year, they heard about kids beating each other up, recruiting for gangs and dismantling their cinder-block…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A study conducted by the Social Policy Institute at Washington University in St. Louis shows that among surveyed parents in Israel, only 37 percent intended to vaccinate their child (aged…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On December 6, 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) released its annual report on malaria. The report notes that in 2020, there were more than 241 million cases and approximately 627,000…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Representation is really important; it plays a vital role in cancer prevention and research,” said Craig Dee, also a member of the Navajo (Dine’) Tribe, and a community health educator…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women. Although Black women represent only 13% of the female population, they accounted…