The wicked problem of booster shots for Americans | Expert Opinion
By Amelia E. Van Pelt and Angela K. Shen, For The Inquirer On Aug. 18, the Department of Health and Human Services released a statement outlining a plan to offer...
This is How Police Killings Affect Black Mental Health
“Nothing will happen to the Police in the Freddie Gray case . . . ” a man tweeted three days after the death of a 25-year-old Baltimore man whose fatal spinal injury while in...
Three MEHP Faculty elected Hastings Center Fellows
The Hastings Center is pleased to announce the election of 12 new fellows. Hastings Center fellows are a group of more than 200 individuals of outstanding accomplishment...
To Disclose or Not to Disclose: $$$ Not Related to Article Topic
Steve Joffe, MD, MPH, chief of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, said doctors "who write for sites like Medscape need to disclose...
To Save a Bundle, These Payments Need To Change
Bundled payment systems have been with us a long while and maybe it’s time to tweak them, according to an opinion piece in JAMA. The authors argue that bundled payments can...
Too many Philly kids are missing routine vaccines, putting us all at risk. Here’s how to keep our city safe. | Expert Opinion
by Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Matthew Guido, For The Inquirer Philadelphia has a problem with routine childhood vaccines: Nearly one in five public school students is not...
Top Tennessee Vaccine Official Says She Was Fired Over Shots for Teens
From The New York Times: The issue of whether and when teenagers should be able to consent to health care decisions has been reignited in the debate over the Covid-19...