Gun violence is severely understudied compared to other causes of death,...
Susan PerryGun violence kills more than 33,000 people in the United States each year, making it one of the leading causes of death in the country.According to the Centers for Disease Control and...
View ArticleScientists outraged that Trump may put vaccine conspiracy theorist in charge...
Susan PerryFor scientists and health officials — particularly experts in infectious diseases — Robert Kennedy Jr.’s announcement Tuesday that President-elect Donald Trump had asked him to chair a new...
View ArticleSame-sex marriage laws linked to drop in teen suicide attempts
Susan PerryThe legalization of same-sex marriage in Minnesota and other states before June 2015, when a ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court made such marriages legal nationwide, was associated with a...
View ArticleObamacare replacement plan's elimination of indoor tanning tax will cost...
Susan PerryOne of the measures of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that the new Republican plan would repeal is the 10 percent excise tax on indoor-tanning services.From both a health and an economic...
View ArticleThe dangers of deregulating the FDA's drug-approval process
Susan PerryIn his first speech to Congress last month, President Trump chastised the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for having a “slow and burdensome” approval process for new drugs. That...
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What we need to do now about the threat of infectious diseases: a Q&A with...
Susan PerryThis article is Part 2 of an interview with Michael Osterholm, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota and co-author of...
View ArticleBeing unhealthy is not a moral failing
Susan PerryIn an interview Monday on CNN, Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Alabama, said one of the advantages of the Republican’s proposed repeal-and-replace plan for the Affordable Care Act would be that healthy...
View ArticleWhy it's difficult to take politics out of the naming of diseases
Susan PerrySpanish flu. Lyme disease. Middle East respiratory syndrome. Legionnaires’ disease. Ebola.How these — and many other diseases — got their common names has an “ugly history,” as journalist...
View ArticleNo scientific evidence that 'thoughts and prayers' have an effect on healing
Susan PerryAfter each mass shooting in the United States, politicians, pundits and the public take to the airwaves and social media to offer their “thoughts and prayers” for the victims. They did so...
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Two-thirds of Americans are significantly stressed about the country's...
Susan PerryFeeling stressed and worried about the country? And is that stress keeping you up at night?You’re not alone.Almost two-thirds of Americans — 63 percent — say the future of the country is a...
View ArticleHigher tax rates for the rich mean fewer Americans die each year, study suggests
Susan PerryPolicies that raise taxes on the rich and redistribute that revenue to lower-income households would dramatically reduce the total number of Americans who die each year, according a study...
View ArticleReport that CDC analysts can't use certain words in budget documents raises...
Susan PerryLast Friday, the Washington Post reported that policy analysts at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were told in a recent meeting not to use seven words when...
View ArticleOprah's long and problematic history of embracing pseudoscience
Susan PerryAs was made clear during the Golden Globe awards ceremony on Sunday night, Oprah Winfrey is a powerful and inspiring speaker. She is also a highly successful businessperson, a talented...
View ArticlePeople easily disgusted by body odors are more likely to hold authoritarian...
Susan PerryPeople easily disgusted by sweat, urine and other body odors are more likely to support authoritarian ideas, reports a provocative study published Tuesday by a team of Swedish...
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Doctors' political affiliation has no effect on end-of-life care, study finds
Susan PerryCreative Commons/MorganThe study found no differences between Republican and Democratic doctors in how much and what kind of care they offered their terminally ill patients.The political...
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