During the 1960-70’s, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) developed into the preeminent public health agency in the United States and the world. Whenever a state health department or foreign health ministry had a disease problem on which they needed assistance, they called on CDC. Inherent in CDC’s...

With a week to go until the US presidential election, more than 60 million Americans have already taken advantage of early voting, smashing all records.

Harry S. Truman claimed that as president of this country he was its most powerful citizen but once he added, smiling, that photographers could be even more powerful.

On June 23, President Trump flew to Yuma, Arizona, to celebrate the completion of 200 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border wall. “It stopped COVID,” he said, failing to mention that our state recently recorded 58,000 cases and 1300 deaths from the disease. An earlier fabrication was Trump’s repeated claim that...

Americans have become acutely aware of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by a wild bat virus that found a home in the cells of the human respiratory system. The virus enters when we inhale respiratory droplets sneezed or coughed by an infected person. Mercifully, it cannot remain infectious for more than...