prevention

Analysis: Monitoring disease ‘hot spots’ could prevent the next pandemic

By Maureen Miller, The Conversation

How COVID-19 could worsen America’s childhood trauma crisis

In this episode, PBS NewsHour correspondent William Brangham talks to special correspondent Cat Wise and reporter Laura Santhanam about why the pandemic is likely making the childhood trauma crisis worse and how caregivers can help their kids and themselves through…

By William Brangham, Cat Wise, Laura Santhanam, Jaywon Choe, Sam Lane, Leah Nagy, Rachel Wellford, Vika Aronson, Erica R. Hendry, Emily Carpeaux

Treating trauma early to help children cope down the line

Just as our understanding of trauma’s long-term impacts has grown in recent years, so too has our grasp of how to treat and prevent it. And this evolution has continued during the pandemic, forcing those who are giving and receiving…

By Cat Wise, Rachel Wellford

To improve patient diets, the doctor is in…the kitchen

By PBS News Hour

Tim Kaine pick puts spotlight on preventative care

In picking Kaine as her vice presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton is putting the spotlight on an issue that many in the medical field believe gets short shrift: preventive health care.

By David Nather, STAT

8 things you didn’t know about Truvada

By Daniel Costa-Roberts

Truvada can be used for what is called "PrEP," short for "pre-exposure prophylaxis," the controversial practice of using antiretroviral drugs to prevent HIV infection.

As HIV epidemic rages in Indiana, lessons to be learned from Vancouver

By William Brangham

Indiana Governor Mike Pence this week declared a public health emergency because of 79 H.I.V. cases among injection drug-users in the southern part of the state.