Health

Amid unprecedented floods which have affected 33 million people and damaged nearly 900 health facilities, Pakistan faces the risk of widespread outbreaks of diseases, including diarrhoea, dengue, malaria, polio and Covid-19. The floods…

By the spring of 2020, the century-old industrial plant on Birmingham’s 35th Avenue was literally falling apart. Chunks of the metal doors fronting several of the 1,800-degree ovens — which…

Zainab Okolo is a strategy officer and Jamie Merisotis is president and CEO at Lumina Foundation.  Okolo is a licensed family therapist who used her research and work in mental health…

People who have received periodontal maintenance care stayed in the hospital for the shortest time after a heart attack, a new study shows. The conventional wisdom is that medical and…

1. Climate change is affecting food quality Global heating is making floods, droughts and heatwaves worse. These extreme weather events are changing the environment and affecting the quality of food…

The Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) report highlights data focused on people living in homeless services system shelters throughout 2019 and 2020. This timeframe paints a picture of the status…

There are almost three million missing neuter/spay surgeries in the US due to the COVID pandemic, researchers report. Along with veterinarian and staff shortages, the missing surgeries are contributing to…

Wildfires are burning more severely and more often, urban noise pollution is growing into a global public health menace, and phenological mismatches – disruptions in the timing of life-cycle stages…

In 2020, COVID was the leading cause of death for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, researchers report. For a new study, the researchers looked at 2020 death certificate data…

“Low reimbursement, staffing shortages, low patient volumes, regulatory barriers, and Covid-19 disruptions all played a role in the shuttering of 136 rural hospitals between 2010 and 2021, including a record…

Fears of polio gripped the U.S. in the mid-20th century. Parents were afraid to send their children to birthday parties, public pools or any place where children mingled. Children in…

Despite dramatic improvements in air quality over the past 50 years, people of color at every income level in the United States are exposed to higher-than-average levels of air pollution. While…