Jordan Eipper

Bio

Jordan lives in Brooklyn, NY. He is a first year medical student.
Mitt Romney Tenure At Cranbrook Prep School in Focus: Why Should You Care?
By Jordan Eipper
Yesterday, the Washington Post published an article exploring Mitt Romney’s tenure at Cranbrook, a prestigious boarding school in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The article’s focal point was an incident in which Romney reportedly led a group of peers…
From Climate Change to Obesity, the Media Oversimplifies Science Through Headlines and Social Media
By Jordan Eipper
Last week, PolicyMic pundit Cameron English discussed some recent studies that have found associations between diet soda intake and weight gain, cardiac disease, and other adverse health outcomes. In his article, English cast well-deserved scorn on…
New Prostate Cancer Screening Guidelines Should Be Followed
By Jordan Eipper
The United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) recently unleashed a controversy when it issued a draft recommendation advising healthy men to stop receiving routine blood tests for prostate-specific antigen (PSA).  PSA is a protein…
Marcia Angell and the Complicated Story of Modern Psychiatry
By Jordan Eipper
In a recent two part piece in the New York Review of Books, former New England Journal of Medicine editor Marcia Angell reviews three books focusing on the state of modern psychiatry in America. In different ways, the three authors all sally forth…
The Precarious Legal Situation of Embryonic Stem Cell Research Funding
By Jordan Eipper
Late last summer, United States District Court Judge Royce Lamberth halted National Institute of Health (NIH) funding flowing to human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. Judge Lamberth issued his injunction on the grounds that a newly relaxed…
Beyond the Death Panel: Getting Serious About End-of-Life Issues
By Jordan Eipper
In a recent interview on Long Island, Sarah Palin reiterated her now infamous claim that 2010’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) would bring about the formation of “death panels.” In Palin’s dystopic fantasy, death panels are ambiguously composed bodies of…