Egg Donation Risk and Reward
But while there remains considerable uncertainty about the true extent of risk, we should not deceive young egg donors for profit.
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Why X and Y?
Despite how common intersex conditions are, the medical community largely disregards the identities and needs of intersex youth and adults.
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Attacking Standards and Science
If Covid-19 has taught us nothing else, it’s that politicians need to train in ethics, in government, in the role of scientific inquiry.
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Who Bears the Weight of Covid-19?
The current CDC methodology erases a key mechanism through which structural racism operates: social and spatial segregation.
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Testing 1, 2, 3
To be effective, Covid-19 testing must be combined with other epidemic-stopping measures like isolation, quarantine, and contact tracing.
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Uptake of PrEP
The full potential of PrEP is yet to be realized because only a fraction of people who would benefit from taking it have access.
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A Return to Reason
We in public health work the realm of attempted truth, not fabrication that serves powerful, partisan interest.
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Summer Publishing Break
Public Health Post is taking a summer publishing break. Thank you for reading, writing, listening, and subscribing. We’ll be back with new stories about the state of the health of the population on Monday, August 24.
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More Than the Sticker Price
The physiologic definition of infertility carries an underlying cis-heteronormative bias that excludes individuals who experience social infertility.
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What Covid-19 Teaches Us About the Food System
The fallout of the pandemic is plunging much of the world – including communities in our own backyard – into severe food insecurity.
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