Tag: disease
Gaza’s next tragedy: Disease risk spreads amid overcrowded shelters, dirty water...
Yara M. Asi, University of Central Florida
After more than a month of being subjected to sustained bombing,...
Curing America’s loneliness epidemic would make us healthier, fitter and less...
Clay Marsh, West Virginia University
A national health advisory issued by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on May 3,...
In mice, a mother’s love comes from the gut
Bill Sullivan, Indiana University
There is perhaps nothing more heartbreaking and confusing than a mother who neglects her children.
Fecal microbe transplants help cancer patients respond to immunotherapy and shrink...
Diwakar Davar, University of Pittsburgh
The effect of a drug, or impact of a treatment like chemotherapy, doesn’t just...
They don’t come as pills, but try these 6 underprescribed lifestyle...
Yoram Vodovotz, University of Pittsburgh and Michael Parkinson, University of Pittsburgh
The majority of Americans are stressed, sleep-deprived and overweight and suffer from largely preventable...
One 19th-century artist’s effort to grapple with tuberculosis resonates during COVID-19
Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College
Like everyone else, artists have been challenged by new conditions and routines since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Many have...
How talking about the coronavirus as an enemy combatant can backfire
Tabitha Moses, Wayne State University
Sometimes war involves battling other countries; other times, it’s the metaphorical kind, like our current “war” against the coronavirus.
We see...
How deforestation helps deadly viruses jump from animals to humans
Amy Y. Vittor, University of Florida; Gabriel Zorello Laporta, Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, and Maria Anice Mureb Sallum, Universidade de São Paulo
The coronavirus...
EXPLORING NATURE
How did it feel to be an American colonist in 1776?...
Katherine Ott, Smithsonian Institution
Trade the tricorn hats, bonnets and homespun shirts for flip flops, sneakers and soccer jerseys,...
