Tag: Public health
As air pollution increases in some US cities, the Trump administration...
Jason West, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Barbara Turpin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Air pollution kills. In the United...
Measles outbreaks show legal challenges of balancing personal rights and public...
Katherine Drabiak, University of South Florida
The measles outbreaks continue to spread, with New York City declaring a public health emergency and requiring people in...
Opioid crisis shows partnering with industry can be bad for public...
Jonathan H. Marks, Pennsylvania State University
“Show me the bodies!” someone demanded at the end of my lecture a few years ago.
As a scholar of...
Paid family leave is an investment in public health, not a...
Darby Saxbe, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Most Americans – on both sides of the political aisle –...
Fossil fuels are bad for your health and harmful in many...
Noel Healy, Salem State University; Jennie C. Stephens, Northeastern University, and Stephanie Malin, Colorado State University
Many Democratic lawmakers aim to pass a Green New...
Wildfire smoke is becoming a nationwide health threat
Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
The impacts of recent forest fires in California reach well beyond the burned areas. Smoke from the Camp...
3 ethical reasons for vaccinating your children
Joel Michael Reynolds, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Across the country, billboards are popping up suggesting that vaccines can kill children, when the science behind vaccination...
Does Monsanto’s Roundup cause cancer? Trial highlights the difficulty of proving...
Richard G. "Bugs" Stevens, University of Connecticut
Does glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used weedkiller Roundup, cause non-Hodgkin lymphoma? This question is at...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
