Environment and Public Health: News and Research on Environment

MeSH tree: N06.230

Could skin reveal new clues about aging and frailty?

When it comes to aging skin, scientists think of much more than wrinkles. They think of an organ with multitudes of microbes, immune cells, structural proteins and chemical signals that constantly interact with one another.

Health systems joining efforts to reduce homelessness

From developing housing to deploying mobile medical units, most of the nation's large health systems are investing in efforts to alleviate homelessness—and, in turn, reduce emergency care costs, new Cornell research finds.

No safe tan: Why Canada's sunburn problem keeps getting worse

Scroll through social media and you will encounter a strange vocabulary for an old impulse: "tanmaxxing," "UV chasing" and "SPF shunning." In some corners of the internet, sunscreen is described as toxic, while a "natural" ...

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