What I’ve Learned So Far

We’ve been on this unit about sexually transmitted diseases for a weeks now and I’ve been able to take a few things away from it. The rate in which people are getting STDs has gone up tremendously over the years. Most of these people are teenagers because it seems as though we tend to be […]

Cafeteria Post

I would like to see more fresh foods put on the cafeteria menu. A lot of the food they give us is processed and not really tasty. Also they sell pizza almost everyday which isn’t a good thing because it’s not good for us. A salad bar would be nice so we could build our […]

Leprosy Reprograms Body’s Cells

Leprosy is probably one of the most ancient diseases known to mankind. It’s been around thousands of years, but it still hasn’t revealed all of it’s secrets to us. I knew study performed on a lab engineered mouse shows that the disease can attack certain nerve cells and reprogram them.  It uses those nerve cells […]

Newton Massacre as a Public Health Failure- and Opportunity

Since the public health profession is supposed to prevent accidents like the Newton Massacre from happening in the first place, that are partly to blame for the failure of gun control to be a top priority in our nation. They have failed to identify the harmful dangers of guns, the gun industry, and the people […]