New Congress Takes Aim at Maternal Health Inequities

The Human Life Bill: personhood revisited, or Congress takes aim at Roe v. Wade.

Taking aim at targets.

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Taking aim at cholera

In 1854, John Snow’s work on cholera in London immortalised the power of mapping as a tool for disease prevention and control. Over 160 years later, a more ambitious effort to map cholera has been reported in The Lancet. Forgoing so-called shoe leather epidemiology in favour of big data, Justin Lessler and colleagues used 279 cholera datasets covering 2283 locations in 37 countries, and cluster...

Taking aim at Sox18

A small molecule called Sm4 can disrupt interactions involving a transcription factor called Sox18, while having little impact on other members of the SoxF family.

Women's Health: Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities

Starting in the late 1980s and throughout the 1990s, reports appeared in the literature describing the poor health status and poor health outcomes experienced by minority populations, especially blacks, in the United States. Additionally, attention was brought to the limited access to health services for minority populations. These reports prompted Congress to request the Institute of Medicine ...