Explore the medical understanding of plague, as seen in the 6th-century Plague of Justinian, the Black Death of the 1300s, and the 19th-century Third Pandemic. Examine the three predominant varieties of plague, the symptomatology of each, and scientific theories as to the nature and transmission of the disease that ravaged Europe in the 14th century.

"For millions of American's, Donald McNeil was a comforting voice when the Covid-19 pandemic broke out. He was a regular reporter on the New York Times's popular podcast The Daily and told listeners early on to prepare for the worst. Over the years, he'd covered AIDS, Ebola, influenza, malaria, MERS, SARS, tuberculosis, and Zika, and he quickly realized that an obscure virus in Wuhan, China, was destined to grow into a global pandemic rivaling the...

Details how research to develop preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans--research that could also be used for the development of bioweapons--was outsourced to the Wuhan Institute of Virology and reveals the conspiracy to hide the source and origin of the COVID-19 virus.

Covers the history of the Ebola virus, the devastating 2014 epidemic, and the quarantine controversies that captured national headlines, exploring how the fear of a disease can sometimes be as dangerous as the disease itself.

"In 1967, an extraterrestrial microbe came crashing down to Earth and nearly ended the human race. Accidental exposure to the particle--designated The Andromeda Strain--killed every resident of the town of Piedmont, Arizona, save for an elderly man and an infant boy. Over the next five days, a team of top scientists assigned to Project Wildfire worked valiantly to save the world from an epidemic of unimaginable proportions. In the moments before a...

"Anticipating a career in medicine, Dr. William A. Haseltine was in his first weeks of graduate studies at Harvard when a legendary physician-scientist offered this advice: "You can do more for human health through science than you ever could as a doctor." That advice hit him "like a thunderbolt"-and he took it. Since then, Dr. Haseltine has helped combat cancers, worked to contain the HIV/AIDS pandemic and unlocked the power of the human genome to...

More than 40 million people in the US suffer from mental health problems--yet fewer than half receive adequate care and treatment ... Dr. Carlin Barnes and Dr. Marketa Wills have written this necessary and comprehensive, practical guide to educate and help everyone better understand mental health"--

"In 1998, Rob Bilott began a legal battle against DuPont that would consume the next twenty years of his life, uncovering the worst case of environmental contamination in modern history and a corporate cover-up that put the health of hundreds of thousands of people at risk. Representing a single farmer who was convinced the creek on his property had been poisoned by runoff from a nearby DuPont landfill, Rob ultimately discovers the truth about PFAS--unregulated,...

Learn how to perform accurate, rigorous analysis of healthcare data. Part one of the training series covers epidemiology, study design, and planning an analytic data set. Even if you have a strong grasp of statistics and informatics, you also need to understand epidemiology and basic study design to perform accurate, rigorous analysis of healthcare data. This course will help you design research studies around hypotheses, and fill the knowledge gap...