In the first national estimate of county-level disparities in heat-related emergencies, a new study led by investigators from the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute found that vulnerable communities were at high risk.
Mar 19, 2024
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Is it finally time to stop worrying about COVID? The latest from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention might leave that impression with some.
Mar 11, 2024
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There are more than 1,200 compressor stations along the roughly 3.2 billion kilometers (2 million miles) of natural gas pipeline in the United States. Monitoring and enforcement of pollutants from these stations is falling ...
Nov 3, 2023
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Living in a neighborhood with better access to resources such as high-quality housing, healthy food, parks and playgrounds, and clean air during the early stages of childhood was associated with lower asthma incidence in ...
Aug 28, 2023
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Legitimate prescriptions of opioids as painkillers are a contributing factor in long-term addiction to these substances. This is what Sarah Eichmeyer of Bocconi's Department of Economics and Jonathan Zhang of McMaster University ...
Aug 2, 2023
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One of the planet's greatest challenges is nourishing all of humanity while protecting the health of the planet itself. In a commentary published in the journal One Earth, Lora Iannotti, a professor at the Brown School at ...
Jul 21, 2023
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Two years after the 2021 heat dome, Washington's deadliest weather-related disaster, researchers are still trying to pin down its full impacts and what lessons can be learned.
Jul 10, 2023
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All prominent migrant groups in the Netherlands are suffering more from long-COVID than the native Dutch population, research from Amsterdam UMC has found. The study, published today, in The Lancet Regional Health—Europe, ...
Apr 7, 2023
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Many parts of rural America with less access to health care also have limited broadband internet that could help them take advantage of increasingly popular online health services.
Mar 24, 2023
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A University of Stirling scientist has led a project which developed a new tool to identify girls in developing countries who are at risk of nutritional deficiency.
Mar 23, 2023
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