Public Health – PharmaNerd

Obesity and Cancer

There are many well-known negative health effects associated with being overweight or obese, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes,

Diabetes causes damage to many different organs and systems in the body. Having high blood sugars over a long period

For many years consumption of dietary fat was blamed for obesity and heart disease, but different types of fat have

Blaming overweight and obese patients for their condition is counterproductive and unfortunately commonplace, both in society and at the doctor’s

Measles is one of the most highly contagious viruses that infects humans, and there are outbreaks occurring in several states

Medications that treat rare diseases are generally not profitable for drug companies to develop because there is not a large

In 1831 John Snow was 18 and an apprentice physician in London when a cholera epidemic broke out. At the

Endocrine disruptors are chemicals that can affect normal hormone functions in the body. These are compounds that have a chemical

Radiation events or releases are one of the many things the public health community trains and prepares for, whether an