Brigham researchers' findings support developing public health interventions that incorporate components of environmental health literacy alongside cancer screening efforts.
Dec 13, 2023
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Dengue is sweeping across the Western Hemisphere in numbers not seen since record-keeping began more than four decades ago, with experts warning that rising temperatures and rapid urbanization are accelerating the pace of ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Sydney and other parts of Australia have just experienced a significant heat wave, with temperatures reaching highs of well over 40°C. In Sydney in particular, the extreme heat has coincided with a bustling schedule of live ...
Dec 12, 2023
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Modern medicine comes at a significant cost to the environment: The energy-intensive industry generates greenhouse gases that drive climate change and unrecyclable waste that packs landfills.
Dec 7, 2023
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The increasing number and intensity of wildfires in the Western U.S. are overshadowing other achievements at reducing emissions, aggravating air pollution and increasing disease and mortality, according to a new study led ...
Dec 6, 2023
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COVID-19 cast a glaring spotlight on the devastating impact that infectious diseases can have on human health and society. At the height of the global pandemic, most of the world came to a standstill, and millions of lives ...
Dec 5, 2023
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Societal issues—including the growth in ultra-high-cost treatments, the epidemic of mental health and substance use disorders, climate change, and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI)— could alter how health systems ...
Dec 4, 2023
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In 2020, then a sociology professor at the University of Texas at Austin and principal investigator of Decode Zika, Letícia Marteleto was leading a team interviewing 4,000 women in Pernambuco, the Brazilian state hit hardest ...
Dec 1, 2023
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Unknowns, dangers and surprises persist about dengue viral infection and now an assumption once accepted as conventional wisdom about immunity to the mosquito-borne disease may be incorrect.
Climate change is making the fight against malaria even harder, with the campaign already struggling to make up ground lost during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.
Nov 30, 2023
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