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Global and Public Health


In U.S., Female Genital Mutilation’s Lasting Scars
March 8, 2019 — Severina Lemachokoti was asleep in her family’s mud hut in Kenya when her mother woke her up before 6 a.m. The...
May 1, 2019


Nobody Came for Prince: The Death of The Artist and the Criminalization of Addiction
This op-ed originally appeared on The Huffington Post on June 6, 2016. Last Thursday the Midwest Medical Examiner’s Office released the...
Aug 26, 2016


A Place for E-cigarettes in Smoking Cessation
“Why so many public health groups are trying to block them is beyond me,” said Siegel. “Cigarettes are highly toxic and kill 400,000...
Mar 30, 2016


The Science of Fat
“Introducing Diet Coke” was the commercial jingle in everyone’s head that announced the zero-calorie soft drink’s arrival on the market....
Nov 14, 2014


Runge Devotes Storied Career to the Disenfranchised
Taking office as President of APhA in 1979, Mary Munson Runge said her goal was to increase membership among women, minority, and...
Oct 3, 2012
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