Here’s what can happen when you don’t get vaccinated for a highly communicable disease, then take a series of overseas and transcontinental flights.
Public Health
L.A. City Council Wants to Require Condoms on Porn Sets
When a pornographic-film performer tested positive for HIV at a Los Angeles porn clinic last October, it shined a light on the lack of oversight of the porn industry. In December, that clinic, which porn producers used to test …
What Did the Planned Parenthood Sting Really Accomplish?
Over five days in mid-January, men posing as sex traffickers entered 12 Planned Parenthood clinics in six states. They claimed to be pimps seeking medical care, birth control and abortions for prostitutes as young as 14, some in …
4 Ways Americans Are Healthier Already
January is the month in which magazines and newspapers tell us how to change our unhealthy ways. That’s not news. What is headline-worthy is that Americans seem to be taking the advice. Indeed, as it turns out, we may not be the …
Women’s Health in the U.S. Fails to Make the Grade
Women’s health initiatives in America are largely failing, according to the latest report card released by the National Women’s Law Center and Oregon Health and Science University.
California Porn Clinic Is Denied a License by the State
A sexual health clinic in the San Fernando Valley — the Hollywood of pornography — has been denied a license to operate as a community clinic by California’s Department of Public Health, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Take the Dr. Oz/TIME Poll: How Healthy Are You?
TIME magazine has partnered with Dr. Oz to find out more about America’s health habits. The results of our poll will be featured on a special episode of The Dr. Oz Show, airing on Jan. 4, 2011. Click here to take the poll …
California’s Whooping Cough Epidemic Hits Latino Babies Hardest
An old disease, pertussis or whooping cough, reemerged this summer in California and crept into the Pacific Northwest. At least one infectious disease expert explained the epidemic by calling the region the “epicenter of vaccine …
Black Men With High Blood Pressure, See Your Barber?
Black men have the highest rate of hypertension-related death of any group in the U.S. (three times the rate of white men), partly because high blood pressure goes untreated in so many African Americans.
4 Reasons Binge Drinking Is a Public Health Problem
One out of 3 adults and 2 out of 3 high school students who drink alcohol binge drink, according to recent government surveys. Startlingly, the data suggest that 90% of the alcohol consumed by high-school kids and more than half …
The Case Against Mouth-to-Mouth Resuscitation
Three recent studies have found that when untrained bystanders perform mouth-to-mouth resuscitation as part of CPR on people who are in cardiac arrest, it does not improve patient survival rates.
Legal Sex Work in Canada Just Became Easier, But Will It Be Safer?
We have a complicated relationship with the world’s oldest profession.
Occupational Hazard: What Is ‘Toasted Skin Syndrome’?
“Toasted skin syndrome” does not refer to the healthy glow earned by lying on a tranquil beach (slathered responsibly with SPF 50, of course). Really, it’s more like a work injury.