Tag: Occupational health
Disinfectants and cleaning products harboring toxic chemicals are widely used despite...
Courtney Carignan, Michigan State University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
Health care workers are frazzled – and poor sleep may turn...
Yuan Zhang, UMass Lowell
Health care workers often put the health and safety of their patients first, neglecting to...
Why it makes good business sense for your employer to look...
Claire de Oliveira, University of York
In any given year, about one in five people will experience a mental...
The EPA is banning chlorpyrifos, a pesticide widely used on food...
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
On Aug. 18, 2021, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it...
Why California is banning chlorpyrifos, a widely-used pesticide: 5 questions answered
Gina Solomon, University of California, San Francisco
Editor’s note: California, the top U.S. food-producing state, is ending use of chlorpyrifos, a pesticide associated with neurodevelopmental...
Black lung disease on the rise: 5 questions answered
Anna Allen, West Virginia University and Carl Werntz, West Virginia University
Editor’s note: An article published Feb. 6, 2018 in the Journal of the American...
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...
