Public health
Drum leads us to this map of outbreaks of preventable disease. Why the big uptick in cases of whooping cough, mumps, measles and other old-timey diseases in the United States?.
As the political figures of my youth pass away, I realize how few of them I really know much about, even though I'm a pretty political guy obviously. That's especially.
I was reading the obituary of the recently passed lefty journalist Doug Ireland. I didn't know he was a polio sufferer. He seems rather young for it. But then there.
What a surprise that the herbal supplement/alternative medicine industry is filled with hucksters, scam artists, and grifters, the likes of which American medicine hasn't seen since the days of patent.
Who could have guessed that anti-vaccination idiocy would lead to illness? A measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned.
Not that fashion is exactly my wheelhouse, but this piece on the growth of tanning salon use among white teenage women and the very real health risks involved is worth.
To build slightly on Scott's post, let me recommend Lindsay Beyerstein's excellent piece today decrying those who use Jenny McCarthy's nude modeling as a reason to dismiss her crazy anti-vaccine.
In an incredibly great piece of public health news, researchers are getting very close to developing a vaccination against malaria. The first study showed the risk of malaria cut in.