Four students from the Urban Medicine program rewrote an American Medical Association resolution and got it passed at the Association’s recent meeting. Jessie Klugman, Soobin Kim, Alex Kenefake, and Maya McKeown collaborated to rework the resolution to better support students nationally who are living with sickle cell disease (SCD). Continue reading →

Over the past several weeks, many news outlets have been reporting serious pulmonary illnesses associated with e-cigarettes, commonly referred to as vaping. Illness has been reported in a variety of  locales by clinical sites and health departments; at this time, data from 25 states is available. On September 6, 2019, the New England Journal of Medicine highlighted the situation in Illinois and Wisconsin. In a detailed report using data from the Centers for Disease and Prevention, the Illinois Department of Public Health, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services and the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, the authors identified 53 individuals, 50 of whom received in-patient treatment, as part of a pulmonary disease cluster. Continue reading →

We are living in a time when immunizations have become quite controversial and many vaccine preventable diseases are gaining traction in our communities. In June 2019, the Mortality and Morbidly Weekly Reports, the flagship publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published a report detailing the impact of high vaccination rates among U.S. pets. Continue reading →