Tag: Public health
More education for Mexican Americans may mean less diabetes
Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Penn State
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The...
What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A health law scholar explains
Margaret Riley, University of Virginia
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule is a federal law prohibiting...
What is child care insecurity? 2 social scientists explain
Cassandra M. Johnson, Texas State University and Shailen Singh, Texas State University
Child care insecurity is a term we’ve...
What’s in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist warns there are lots of...
Luke Montrose, Boise State University
Something unusual happened this year in Idaho. Fire and health officials began issuing warnings...
Lack of sleep is harming health care workers – and their...
Soomi Lee, University of South Florida
Many people often assume that health care providers are healthier than the general...
The next pandemic is already happening – targeted disease surveillance can...
Maureen Miller, Columbia University
As more and more people around the world are getting vaccinated, one can almost hear...
School nurses have a big job – is 1 for every...
Beth Jameson, Seton Hall University
When many people think of a school nurse, they imagine a person who hands...
Pain of police killings ripples outward to traumatize Black people and...
Denise A. Herd, University of California, Berkeley
It’s been one year since George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police...
EXPLORING NATURE
Nanoparticles and artificial intelligence can help researchers detect pollutants in water,...
Andres B. Sanchez Alvarado, Rice University
Across the U.S., hundreds of sites on land or in lakes and rivers...
