On June 28, 2012 the United States Supreme Court upheld the Patient Rights and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The individual mandate and the extension of Medicaid eligibility are the primary components of ACA and have drawn a great deal of attention from the media and public. However, little attention has focused on how ACA will affect ve...

If we Americans learned one thing from the previous occupants of the White House, Presidents matter. President Barack Obama has been left a huge mess to clean up. He will need wisdom, courage, phenomenal leadership skills, and a great deal of good will and luck to undo the damage of the last eight years and move the country to a healthier and more sustainable future. For public health nutrition...

President Barack Obama announced the launch of the National Institutes of Health Precision Medicine Initiative® (PMI) in January 2015. Precision medicine includes the concept of individualized or personalized medicine at a more exact level through advances in science and technology, such as genetics and genomics sequencing. Although many disease processes will be investigated through the precis...

As the web ages, many web documents become relevant only to certain time periods, such as web-pages containing news and events or those documenting natural phenomena. Hence, to retrieve the most relevant pages, in addition to providing the relevant keywords, one may desire to identify the relevant time period(s) as well, e.g., “Barack Obama 1980-1985”. Unfortunately, not much work has been done...

When Barack Obama became the “first Black President” of the United States in 2008, researchers examined how his election impacted Americans’ views of racial progress. When he was reelected in 2012, the minority status of the president had become less novel. In the present study, we investigated whether perceptions concerning racial progress varied: (1) before and after President Obama’s reelect...