Proposed ordinance would require tobacco manufacturers to clean up its own street litter
See that cigarette butt on the street? Tobacco manufacturers could be cleaning up after their own cigarette litter in California under a model ordinance proposed by ChangeLab Solutions of Oakland, California. The model ordinance is designed to help local counties and cities curb tobacco litter in their communities. Under the […]
CDC Drinking and Pregnancy Recommendations Draw Ire from Those It Is Meant to Help
A press release from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a federal agency under the Department of Health and Human Services, is making national headlines for all of the wrong reasons. The release, entitled “More than 3 million US women at risk for alcohol-exposed pregnancy,” appeared to have […]
Electronic Health Record Interoperability Not as Close as Hoped According to GAO
A September report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that while progress is being made in terms of electronic health records (EHR) interoperability, healthcare providers in the United States are still far away from full implementation. Interoperability is the idea that different EHR systems would be able to pass […]
Election 2016 and the Fate of the Affordable Care Act
Election 2016 and the Fate of the Affordable Care Act As the 2016 presidential race looms on, candidates, on both sides of the isle, have provided prospective voters with ideas of how health care in America will fair under their presidency. Candidates have adopted policies ranging from complete and utter […]
Three-parent Babies
On February 3, 2016, a panel consisting of elite scientists and bioethicists gave its approval to “go forward with caution” with a form of genetic engineering called Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy (“MRT”) as long as the process is carefully monitored and closely regulated. The purpose of MRT is to prevent the […]