Nov 12, 2024 | Blog
By: MacKenzie Huffman, JHBL Staffer Milton Rice, a seventy-six-year-old individual incarcerated at Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk, applied for medical parole in March 2020 due to serious underlying health conditions that posed a fatal risk if he...
Nov 6, 2024 | Blog
By: Hannah Hubler, JHBL Staffer Rarely is an individual more vulnerable than when laying on their back in a johnny, feet in stirrups, with a modest sheet of paper covering their lower half.[1] The inherently unequal dynamic between the physician and the patient...
Oct 29, 2024 | Blog
By: Thomas Haynes, JHBL Staffer Introduction: High school students across the United States currently require assistance with their mental health.[1] In the United States, 39.7% of high school students report feeling persistent sadness, that being a...
Oct 22, 2024 | Blog
By: Zachary Gili, JHBL Staffer Longstanding issues of food and water contamination in the United States led to the creation of the Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter FDA), United States Department of Agriculture (hereinafter USDA), and Environmental...
Oct 16, 2024 | Blog
By: Erin Doane, JHBL Staffer Theorists, scientists, policymakers, and others repeatedly study the maturation of the human brain.[1] The first five years of a child’s life are extremely formative, as brain development during this period directly affects...
Oct 8, 2024 | Blog
By: Catherine Colt, JHBL Staffer Introduction Nearly half of all women in the United States have reported incidents of sexual violence, physical violence or stalking by an intimate partner at some point in their lifetime.[1] Over 60% of these fifty-nine million women...
