Health historian Ruth Engs brings together nine previously unpublished works by Upton Sinclair, introducing his Progressive Era health reformer side. The comedies and satire speak as much to current health trends as they do Sinclair's time.
In his new book, The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s (Peter Lang, 2009), Indiana University professor Mike Conway tells the stories of a mostly unknown group of CBS employees who worked in obscurity to develop a new way to deliver the news.
Lloyd Kolbe and Susan Middlestadt, public health and obesity experts at Indiana University, discuss the new IOM report, which outlines steps local governments can take to make health lifestyles easier for kids.
Next week, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is scheduled to be inaugurated for a second term in office as Iran's president. Yet he faces a hornets' nest. Iran's society is in the worst political turmoil since 1979 and its economy is sliding downward rapidly too. Jamsheed Choksy, Indiana University professor of Central Eurasian Studies, history, ancient studies and India studies and an adjunct professor in religious studies, is available to discuss this and other developments.
Experts from Indiana University discuss Influenza A (H1N1), important sexual health information for incoming college freshmen, nurturing kids' interest in technology, and an inside view of how a sorority polices members' "ladylike" behavior.
Joel Stager, Indiana University exercise physiology professor, swimming expert and long-time swim coach and competitor, discusses the negative impact controversial high-tech swimsuits have on swimmers and swim programs. "Finally, the athletes are getting it into their heads that their efforts are being devalued," he says.
News organizations are reporting that about 35 government and commercial Web sites in South Korea and the United States have came under major attack in recent days. Suspected in the coordinated cyber attack is North Korea or its sympathizers. Heon Joo Jung, an Indiana University expert on Korean politics, is available to speak with the news media.
Indiana University experts A.B. Assensoh and Yvette M. Alex-Assensoh comment on President Barack Obama's upcoming visit to Ghana. The president, First Lady Michelle Obama and their daughters will visit the African nation Friday and Saturday.
Basic, irreversible changes are occurring in Iran -- begun and directed by the Iranian people themselves -- says Indiana University Professor Jamsheed Choksy, a specialist on Iranian history and religions.
With health care reform moving to the front of the national agenda, 10 Indiana University experts from the fields of public health, medicine, policy and law share their perspectives.
As hundreds of thousands of demonstrators continue to take to the streets of Tehran, an Indiana University professor who has traveled throughout Iran continues to get reports from colleagues within the country, who indicate that Arabic-speaking militias are arriving in the country.
Indiana University Professor Jamsheed Choksy, a specialist on Iranian history and religions, who has traveled throughout Iran, is available for comments.
Full-power television stations will broadcast only digital TV signals after June 12. When that happens, consumers who have not purchased digital TVs or installed digital-to-analog converter boxes will no longer be able to receive over-the-air broadcasts. Experts at Indiana University are available to offer their perspectives.
An Indiana University faculty expert is available to comment on issues related to recent news that North Korea conducted its second nuclear bomb test, that it plans to test a long-range missile and that a successor to leader Kim Jong-il has been selected, as well as other developments on the Korean peninsula.
President Barack Obama named Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court. Indiana University law professors Craig Bradley, Kevin Collins, Gerard Magliocca, MarÃa Pabón López and David Orentlicher comment on the appointment.
A judge in Minnesota has ruled that a family must get medical treatment for their 13-year-old son's cancer because it is highly treatable. Based on the family's religious convictions, it chose alternative treatments. According to Jody Madeira, a professor at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, a judge correctly found that the parents have medically neglected their son by refusing chemotherapy.
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit (May 11) against the Patent and Trademark Office, Myriad Genetics, and the University of Utah Research Foundation for patenting two genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancers. Yvonne Cripps, the Harry T. Ice Professor of Law at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, says this is likely to be a landmark case.
David P. Fidler of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law says the developing debate about the responses to Influenza A (H1N1) is important but that people should be wary of simplistic hype about the "panic" public health responses to the outbreak have ostensibly caused.
Indiana University experts in statistical analysis and computer modeling of epidemics, health law and public health discuss statistical models for U.S. cases, challenges to addressing the spread of the swine flu and advice for staying healthy.
Indiana University faculty experts -- one of them a former EPA deputy administrator -- comment on the EPA's decision Friday to regulate greenhouse gases as pollutants.
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