Nearly 2,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles County during the first year of the pandemic, an increase of 56% from the previous year, driven mainly by drug overdoses, authorities said.
Apr 24, 2022
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The death toll from an Ebola outbreak in Uganda has risen to nine, the health ministry said Friday, two weeks after the authorities announced an epidemic in the centre of the country.
Oct 3, 2022
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A study that prompted users to record the 'good things' in nature in urban areas, such as trees, flowers and birds, has found that a smartphone app can bring clinically significant improvements in mental health.
Oct 22, 2019
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A person who owns a car or who has a college education may be less vulnerable to COVID-19, according to an analysis of cases in Tehran, Iran, one of the early epicenters of the pandemic. While such variables do not inherently ...
Apr 16, 2021
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New research has determined that the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic led to increased depression, anxiety, and social risks among urban, racial, and ethnic minority children aged five to 11 years old compared to the prior ...
Dec 8, 2021
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Frequent visits to urban green spaces, such as parks and community gardens in Finland, rather than the amount, or views of them from home, may be linked to lower use of certain prescription meds, suggests research published ...
Jan 17, 2023
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"Gibsonify" has been developed by a team of researchers from the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Center for Global Equality and the University of Cambridge and is now ready to go ...
Sep 6, 2022
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Hundreds of rural hospitals across the United States are teetering on the edge of closure, with their financial status increasingly in peril, a new report reveals.
Jan 16, 2023
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Mosquitoes are more likely to acquire the dengue virus when they feed on blood with low levels of iron, researchers report in the 16 September issue of Nature Microbiology. Supplementing people's diets with iron in places ...
Sep 16, 2019
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Childhood and adolescent cancer survival in the United States does not vary by rural/urban residence at the time of diagnosis, finds a new study from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis.
Oct 23, 2018
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