Doctors on TikTok Try to Go Viral

For decades, sex education in the classroom could be pretty cringey. For some adolescents, it meant a pitch for abstinence; others watched their teachers put condoms on bananas and attempt sketches of fallopian tubes that looked more like modern art. On TikTok, sex ed is being flipped on its head. Teenagers who load the app…

My Father the Heartbreaker

On the day after Christmas in 1996, my brother, Michael, called to say that our father had tried to kill himself. This was not his first suicide attempt, but the way he went about it left us stunned. He had dressed for work that morning, driven to a quarry near his house, parked his car,…

Mason joins NIH grant to study young environmental exposures

Rosemary Higgins, Associate Dean for Research, College of Health and Human Services (CHHS), and Germaine Buck Louis, Dean, CHHS, received $1,457,607 from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) for: “ECHO Consortium on Perinatal Programming of Neurodevelopment.” This project is part of NIH’s Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO) Program. The overall objective of this…