Much like 2025, 2026 is shaping up to be a year full of turmoil and uncertainty for public health and the biomedical sciences. But while we’re still flying blind in many respects, we’ve learned some lessons along the way that we can put to use as we continue to navigate the storm. At the end of last year, we had the pleasure of giving our first workshop in a series on health communication for a local county health department. This was an exciting opportunity for us to engage

Every now and then, a major news publication will post a story with a headline like, “ HIV can be completely eliminated in laboratory...

Siddhartha Mohan is a medical writer and blogger who was diagnosed with ASD (autism spectrum disorder) as an adult. He writes about his...

Image by Jan from Pixabay This post was created in collaboration with M.E. Sidall . We often blame social media for the spread of...

Image adapted from ContuEd.com licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 A couple of weeks ago, we attended the Society for Health Communication’s...

This is part two of our Pride month blog series, in which we   address the current social, legal, and medical landscape affecting the...

In honor of Pride month, this is part one of a blog series that will address the current social, legal, and medical landscape affecting...

Public trust in our government health agencies is at an all-time low. Recent polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation , for example, shows...

John H. McCool is Chief Scientific Editor at Precision Scientific Editing, LLC . He has edited over 1,500 scientific manuscripts for top...

Photo by Nick Fewings In a recent interview  with journalist Ben Meiselas, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear spoke at length on the failure of...