Winter 2008 Alcohol: Heavenly Healer or Devil’s Delight? Alice Abler Duane Abler Researchers, government health agencies and religions have a great deal to say about alcohol use and abuse. What does the Bible say about alcohol use?
October 24, 2007 Fixing School Meals Alice Abler Jessica Abler For children today, a main source of food is the school cafeteria. However, many of the options found in schools encourage unhealthy eating habits.
October 19, 2007 How Much Sleep Do We Need—And How Do We Get It? Alice Abler Living in this caffeine-charged, 24/7-society leaves a large percentage of us chronically and dangerously sleep deprived.
Disenfranchised Grief Some bereaved are more likely than others to be overlooked. Such people often do not receive the comfort they need in order to grieve properly.
Winter 2007 Happiness: The Means or the End? David F. Lloyd Happiness is a fairly new area of research. What can we learn about this elusive quality and how to attain it? Are there keys to happiness?
Fall 2006 A Modern Menace: Emerging Infectious Diseases Rebecca Sweat By the 1970s, the medical community believed they had all but won the war against communicable diseases. What happened?
The Zoonotic Connection Roughly 75 percent of the pathogens linked with emerging infections, are zoonoses—diseases that are transmitted between vertebrate animals and people.
Summer 2006 The Birds Is Coming! John Meakin Vision explores the potential of a flu pandemic through two authors who address different aspects of the issue.
Spring 2006 The Sickness Business Brian Orchard Many disorders that were previously regarded as derived from moral or social problems are now viewed as medically treatable.
Winter 2006 Preparing for the Next Pandemic Rebecca Sweat Experts predict that the avian flu virus will likely mutate and cause a human pandemic. How might that happen, and what can we do?