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Health

Predicting postpartum blues

Published March 20, 2017

Hopkins study links postpartum depression with diminished levels of 'anti-anxiety' hormone allopregnanolone / Hopkins Medicine

Pill Policy

A case for OTC contraception

Published March 15, 2017

Review suggests greater availability of birth control doesn't lead to more teens having sex but does help prevent unwanted pregnancies / Hopkins Medicine

Health care

An insurance moral hazard

Published March 15, 2017

Many people with chronic illnesses choose needlessly costly insurance plans, driving costs up for everyone, Carey Business study finds

Public health

Rethinking the refugee crisis

Published March 13, 2017

The Syrian crisis has shown us the need for major reform of humanitarian response, Center for Humanitarian Health's Paul Spiegel says / Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health

Diabetes

Episodes of extremely low blood sugar put diabetics at increased risk for death

Published March 10, 2017

Within three years of dangerously low blood sugar episode requiring emergency department visit, one-third of those in study died / School of Public Health

A cartoon women sits in a stone room while winged breasts fly around her

Q+A

Saints, mastectomies, and the power of myth

Published March 9, 2017

A conversation with filmmaker Bernadette Wegenstein, whose documentary 'The Good Breast' offers an intimate look at surgical breast cancer interventions

Commentary

Protecting health, civil rights of those with autism

Published March 8, 2017

Trump administration policies—official and unofficial—threaten those with autism and other disabilities, public health experts say / New England Journal of Medicine