A severe mental illness can be a death sentence, but not for the reasons you might think. Individuals living in the United States with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than any other civilian approached or stopped by law enforcement. The […]

There’s an app for just about everything. There’s an app for pretending to shave your beard. There’s an app for helping bread become toast. There’s even an app for timing your pee breaks at the movie theater. However pointless these apps might be, one of their functions is much more […]

On January 17, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the writ of certiorari to hear two cases involving employers’ obligation to provide health insurance coverage for contraceptives. Employers are currently required to provide employees with health insurance including women’s preventive care under the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). In 2011, the […]

Typically, individuals and families with health insurance have the advantage of receiving free flu shots every season, but a recent report from the Kaiser Health Network paints a different picture of the true cost insurers pay to provide free vaccinations to its plan holders. While the cost of a yearly […]

Since the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the early 80s, public health officials and lawmakers have proposed legislative approaches to prevent HIV transmission at both the national and state level. lawmakers have tried to address this issue using punitive measures by enacting laws that criminalize high-risk behaviors linked to […]