July 13, 2015
It’s been more than 15 years since the publication of the first seminal study documenting how adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, impact adult health. Most of us have faced at least one childhood trauma, and these experiences can cause or exacerbate chronic diseases such as cancer, heart disease, and mental …
May 4, 2015
May 1, 2015 Bloomberg by Billy House Shortly before midnight Thursday, without fanfare, the U.S. House voted to repeal a Washington D.C. law that will prohibit employers from discriminating against workers who obtain abortions or use birth control. The 228-192 vote was symbolic venting and conservative vote-scorecard padding, at most. …
May 8, 2013
Public Health Law Program, CDC In a 1932 dissent, Justice Brandeis stated, “[i]t is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of …