This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention changed its guidance to recommend everyone, regardless of vaccination status, wear masks in Covid-19 hot spots. A study of an outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, found around three-quarters…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Research often takes Richard Primack, a professor of biology at Boston University, beyond his classroom to places like Malaysia, China, Japan, and Germany for extensive fieldwork and writing. For the time…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Less than halfway through the 2020 wildfire season, fires are burning large swaths of the western U.S. As in previous years, these disasters have entered populated areas, damaging drinking water…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In recent years, restrictive immigration policies, such as expansions to the public charge rule, have led many immigrant families to avoid safety net programs. Although the Biden administration has stated that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. All of a sudden, it looks like masks may have to be put back on. With the rise of the delta variant and a rapid increase in Covid-19 cases, the US Centers for…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious airborne disease that attacks the lungs of the person it infects. Statistically, more men contract TB around the world, but health experts in developing countries argue that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The NIHCM Foundation, a member of MIF since 2019, funds health care journalism that examines issues impacting the United States health care system and consumers, such as access to care,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea We combined a machine learning algorithm with knowledge gleaned from hundreds of biological experiments to develop…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Last week, at the pre-summit of the United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS) in Rome, 500 in-person and 20,000 virtual delegates gathered to outline a pathway toward healthier, more sustainable and equitable…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. High turnover and staffing shortages have long been a scourge of early childhood education, but for many child care providers, the struggle has ratcheted up considerably during the pandemic. That was true…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wellcome’s lived experience team hosted a series of webinars on how to make mental health more inclusive: from involving people with lived experience, to designing mental health interventions that stretch beyond…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Researchers have identified a link between air pollution and a greater hazard of all-cause dementia. They found a similar association for Alzheimer’s-type dementia. The team from the University of Washington…