As rapidly intensifying storms and rising sea levels threaten coastal cities from Texas to the tip of Maine, Hurricane Ian has just demonstrated what researchers have warned: Hundreds of hospitals in the U.S. are not ready ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Australia is heading for a "perfect storm" as climate change ramps up the frequency of disasters and as the population is fatigued, vulnerable and less resilient thanks to almost three years of continual emergencies, according ...
Oct 10, 2022
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Think beyond the infant in your arms. That's the call to action a University at Buffalo epidemiologist is stressing in a new line of research investigating the long-term effects climate change is likely to have on birthing ...
Oct 5, 2022
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A survey of residents from the city of Nagoya in central Japan has provided evidence of the negative impact of warmer nighttime summer temperatures on population health. In total, more than 1,200 residents filled out a sleep ...
Oct 3, 2022
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Rates of traumatic injury among workers in the Oregon agricultural and construction sectors are significantly higher during periods of high heat compared with periods of more moderate weather, a recent Oregon State University ...
Sep 29, 2022
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Until recently, scientists have not fully understood why ticks are such dangerous disease vectors. A research team led by Johanna Strobl and Georg Stary from MedUni Vienna's Department of Dermatology shows that tick saliva ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a Zika vaccine technology that is highly effective and safe in preclinical mouse models. In a pregnant mouse model, the vaccine prevented both ...
Sep 28, 2022
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In Sri Lanka, a rash of kidney disease is affecting farmers who grow rice in marshy parts of the island. Professor Nishad Jayasundara of the Nicholas School of the Environment and the Duke Global Health Institute. (DGHI) ...
Sep 26, 2022
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Ever since they were infants, LaRae Cantley's four children were constantly in and out of the emergency room, because they couldn't breathe.
Sep 23, 2022
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In a Syria hospital crowded with women and wailing children, Ahmad al-Mohammad writhed in pain beside his wife after they contracted cholera, which is resurging for the first time in years.
Sep 22, 2022
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