New scorecard reveals which states prepared for climate health threats
A new Commonwealth Fund report offers the first state-by-state ranking of how vulnerable individual health and health care systems are to climate risks.
Oct 1, 2025
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Natural Phenomenon or Process: Floods
Medical news and research articles
Heat, air quality, insurance costs: How climate change is affecting our homes—and our health
This year, 10 days of extreme heat in Europe killed roughly 2,300 people, severe flooding on the New South Wales coast left more than 48,000 stranded, and wildfires in Los Angeles destroyed at least 16,000 homes and other ...
Sep 18, 2025
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Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound recording and the internet were all developed using funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.
May 15, 2025
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Multiple exposures to climate disasters lead to worse mental health outcomes, study finds
Repeated exposure to climate disasters leads to worse mental health with slower recovery times, according to new University of Melbourne research. Mental health worsens even more when an individual experiences multiple climate ...
Apr 30, 2025
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Flooding associated with 26% higher hospitalization risk for up to seven months, large-scale study reveals
The world's largest and most comprehensive study of the long-term health impacts of flooding—via analysis of over 300 million hospitalization records in eight countries prone to flooding events—has found an increased risk ...
Apr 8, 2025
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Ex-Cyclone Alfred has left flooding in its wake—here's how floods affect our health
Ex-Cyclone Alfred is bringing significant rainfall to southeast Queensland and the Northern Rivers of New South Wales. Flooding has hit Lismore, Ballina, Grafton, Brisbane and Hervey Bay, which received 150 mm of rainfall ...
Mar 10, 2025
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Climate change is also a health emergency, warn experts
International experts in emergency medicine have warned that climate change is likely to have a severe impact on emergency services around the world. Despite this, few countries have assessed the scale of the impact or have ...
Oct 13, 2024
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Cholera outbreak intensifying in Yemen, UN warns
The United Nations on Monday expressed fears at what it called a "rapidly worsening" outbreak of cholera in war-ravaged Yemen, with more than 40,000 suspected cases since October, mainly in areas controlled by Huthi rebels.
May 13, 2024
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How floods kill, long after the water has gone: Sobering data from a global decade-long study
With New York's declared state of emergency following flash flooding, there is increasing concern such events will become more common globally.
Oct 4, 2023
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Assessing the global impact: Floods and infectious diseases over three decades
Natural flood disasters affect more people than any other environmental hazard and hinder sustainable development. These events have far-reaching consequences, including serious health, social and economic ramifications.
Sep 14, 2023
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