As coronavirus continues to spread, older adults face a challenge: how to get the medications they need without putting themselves at risk. A new national survey shows they aren’t prepared.
- Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education, Co-Director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine, University of Michigan
Don’t eat raw cookie dough in a house, with a mouse, or here, there or anywhere, wrote the FDA commissioner last week. A public health scholar sees – and tastes – things differently.
Just about everyone wants medical care, but some want it a lot more. We discovered a personality trait that explains why it’s hard to improve health care outcomes and costs.
The FDA recently advised people not to eat raw cookie dough because raw flour with E. coli in it had sickened 38 people. Do we really have to forgo our favorites?
Individual stories of perceived vaccine harms can undermine trust in vaccine safety, even if people don’t believe the vaccine was to blame.
Purchase a plastic water bottle, and there’s a good chance that it will feature a “BPA-free” label. You might be seeing it more often because the industrial chemical Bisphenol-A has now been removed from…
Getting a test result from the doctor is usually more than a yes or a no answer. More often than not, test results come in tables of numbers with information about ranges and unfamiliar units, all formatted…
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