Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
At last, COVID-19 shots for little kids – 5 essential reads
Amanda Mascarelli, The Conversation
For many parents of kids under age 5, a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine could...
Surprise – your kids may be nervous about ditching the mask
Elizabeth Englander, Bridgewater State University and Katharine Covino-Poutasse, Fitchburg State University
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued...
Medical examiners and coroners have borne a heavy burden during the...
Staci Zavattaro, University of Central Florida
“We stopped doing heads.”
It was the second time I’d...
The chickenpox virus has a fascinating evolutionary history that continues to...
Patricia L. Foster, Indiana University
In July 2021, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presentation obtained by the...
Medicine is an imperfect science – but you can still trust...
Venktesh Ramnath, University of California San Diego
The Conversation is running a series of dispatches from clinicians and researchers...
What the CDC eviction ban means for tenants and landlords: 6...
Katy Ramsey Mason, University of Memphis
Editor’s note: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued an order on Sept. 1 banning evictions of people...
Was the coronavirus outbreak an intelligence failure?
Erik J. Dahl, Naval Postgraduate School
As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold, it’s clear that having better information sooner, and acting more quickly on...
Is it wrong to ask your doctor for opioids?
Travis N. Rieder, Johns Hopkins University
More than 42,000 people died in 2016 from an opioid overdose. Forty percent of these deaths involved a prescription...
EXPLORING NATURE
Unprecedented cuts to the National Science Foundation endanger research that improves...
Paul Bierman, University of Vermont
Look closely at your mobile phone or tablet. Touch-screen technology, speech recognition, digital sound...
