Tag: cancer
Annual numbers of excess deaths in the US relative to other...
Patrick Heuveline, University of California, Los Angeles
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Drawing, making music and writing poetry can support healing and bring...
Marlaine Figueroa Gray, University of Washington
The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the deep need that people feel...
Arsenic contamination of food and water is a global public health...
Cristina Andrade-Feraud, Florida International University and Diana Azzam, Florida International University
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element found in...
Body lotions, mothballs, cleaning fluids and other widely used products contain...
Robin Dodson, Boston University; Megan R. Schwarzman, University of California, Berkeley, and Ruthann Rudel, Northeastern University
The Research Brief...
Lung cancer rates have decreased for the Marlboro Man, but have...
Estelamari Rodriguez, University of Miami
When many people think of an average lung cancer patient, they often imagine an...
People produce endocannabinoids – similar to compounds found in marijuana –...
Prakash Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina and Mitzi Nagarkatti, University of South Carolina
Over the past two decades, a...
CBD is not a cure-all – here’s what science says about...
Kent E Vrana, Penn State
Over the last five years, an often forgotten piece of U.S. federal legislation –...
Does this cause cancer? How scientists determine whether a chemical is...
Brad Reisfeld, Colorado State University
People are exposed to numerous chemicals throughout their lifetimes. These chemicals can be from...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
