Category: 5. Health

Despite mounting evidence that connect drinking to multiple diseases and high levels of morbidity and mortality, the…

I was shocked and saddened when I read about the potential new vaccine policy in Florida yesterday. As a pediatrician, I’ve seen many sick children over the years, many unvaccinated and struck by diseases that could have been prevented.

I…

The priciest thing in American healthcare right now isn’t a biologic or a breakthrough device. It’s bad information. Medical misinformation from social…

Infant mortality has risen in states that enacted tighter abortion restrictions in the wake of the June 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health decision. This occurs for newborns – those less than a day old – as well as older infants –…

Colorado has one of the highest suicide rates in the nation, at 20.9 per 100,000 in 2023. Of the state’s 940 gun deaths that year, nearly 72% were by suicide.

Nationally, firearms are the leading cause of death for American youth ages 1…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans’ health but also its very survival as a…

What Florida is doing to vaccine mandates…