“There are two big parts of the health reform law going into effect today. One penalizes hospitals if patients are…
Grappling with how health disparities research could yield detrimental outcomes for those very populations deemed to be “underrepresented” or “marginalized”
“Without the cooperation and input of doctors and health officials, the CDC would never have understood the full range of…
Expanding the Use of Abuse Assessment Screens to Identify Victims of Domestic Violence
Domestic violence is a pervasive problem that affects 25% of women in the United States. Pregnancy further increases a woman’s risk for being…
“the cumulative stress of racism is taking a toll on African American families even before they are born”
“Even when doctors did not force poor or nonwhite women to accept sterilization as a method of contraception, social and…
“A certain degree of bias is inevitable”
The ongoing contentious debate over the constitutionality of the death penalty clearly misses the key issues at hand. Focus is…
Sick of hearing the “those poor oppressed Muslim women” rhetoric
Great paper by one of my favorite professors at Columbia who encouraged me to switch from an engineering major to…
Menacing Makeup?
Mounting evidence indicates that girls in the United States are undergoing puberty at earlier ages now than ever before. One…
A War on Women
We are in an economic recession. While some monetary sacrifices for governmental agencies are inevitable, the latest push to deprive…
Agent Orange
There is no denying that the Vietnam War was one of the most devastating military conflicts in the history of…
