A team of infectious diseases experts called for more awareness and preparedness in the medical field to deal with the impact of climate change on the spread of diseases. Their article, published in JAMA raises the alarm ...
Mar 20, 2024
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Though matters of climate change, biodiversity loss and Indigenous Peoples' health and well-being are often considered separately, the three are linked in innumerable ways.
Mar 20, 2024
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A study that looked at how the immune system reacts to hot weather offers new insight into what's happening when the mercury rises.
Mar 20, 2024
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Dengue is a disease characterized by fever, rash, headache, myalgia, and arthralgia, with a risk for complications due to endothelial dysfunction and hemorrhage. Most common in countries in Central and South America, Southeast ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Climate change poses profound public health threats to people of all ages. But as the climate changes, the world is facing another public health challenge: aging.
Mar 14, 2024
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The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half.
Mar 8, 2024
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An estimated 1.8 million incarcerated people in the United States have been recently exposed to a dangerous combination of heat and humidity, and on average experience 100 days of these conditions each year—many of them ...
Mar 5, 2024
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If approved by voters on Tuesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom's ballot measure to overhaul the state's mental health services system and sell bonds to finance more than 10,000 treatment beds across California could cost the state up ...
Mar 2, 2024
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Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, which may particularly endanger vulnerable populations such as the elderly. Researchers examined how weather disasters between 2011 and 2016 ...
Feb 29, 2024
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Worsening human-induced climate change may have effects beyond the widely reported rising sea levels, higher temperatures, and impacts on food supply and migration—and may also extend to influencing mental distress among ...
Feb 22, 2024
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