COVID-19-related restrictions have further exposed inequalities in people's access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) in the Pacific Island countries especially among women, experts say.
May 4, 2022
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Michael Keasling of Lakewood, Colorado, was an electrician who loved big trucks, fast cars, and Harley-Davidsons. He'd struggled with diabetes since he was a teenager, needing a kidney transplant from his sister to stay alive. ...
Apr 8, 2022
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As an undergraduate chemistry major at Union College, Jake Ulrich studied abroad in Vietnam, where water wasn't safe to drink straight from the tap—it either had to be boiled first or bought. An internship with a local ...
Feb 22, 2022
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Exposure to lead in drinking water, especially from private wells, during early childhood is associated with an increased risk of being reported for delinquency during teenage years, according to a new study by Indiana University ...
Feb 1, 2022
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Cholera is a diarrheal disease caused by ingestion of the Vibrio cholerae bacterium. In November 2017, a cholera epidemic occurred in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where no outbreak had been recorded for ...
Jul 8, 2021
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Since state austerity policies initiated a potable water crisis seven years ago in Flint, Michigan, public health monitoring has focused on potential developmental deficits associated with lead exposure in adolescents or ...
Apr 15, 2021
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African trypanosomiasis (also known as sleeping sickness) is a disease transmitted by tsetse flies and is fatal to humans and other animals; however, there is currently no vaccine, this disease is mainly controlled by reducing ...
Jan 26, 2021
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A team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, Nankai University and the University of California, Berkeley, has found that the cellular substrates that underlie two types of thirst could be identified ...
Finding reliable, accurate information about the novel coronavirus COVID-19 is becoming more convoluted each day, especially when it comes to social media. With an overwhelming amount of information, it can be difficult to ...
Mar 19, 2020
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Last Thursday, dairy company Lactalis Australia recalled eight varieties of milk over concerns the products could be contaminated with the bacteria Escherichia coli (E. coli).
Jun 24, 2019
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