Several recent announcements have demonstrated how little has been learned from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential need for a national reckoning to assess shortfalls and develop recommendations for…
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A new guide for clinicians, researchers, and mental health practitioners describes an evidence-based suicide prevention program. For every person who died by suicide in 2020, 25 more made an attempt,…
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If you looked at the heat index during this summer’s sticky heat waves and thought, “It sure feels hotter!,” you may be right. An analysis by climate scientists at the…
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The criminalization of abortion in some states after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision poses especially harmful health and economic consequences for pregnant women from vulnerable populations, including Black, Latinx, or Indigenous people and those…
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Click here for more.Having a stable, safe, and affordable place to call home impacts our ability to be healthy. But because America’s foundational housing policies and systems intentionally excluded Black, Indigenous, and other…
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New findings link food insecurity and avoiding tap water. For nearly 61 million Americans, tap water is either unavailable or untrusted. New research shows for the first time that, in…
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Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea The world’s largest multinational tobacco companies are advertising cigarettes to kids near playgrounds and schools in…
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We are now over 900 days into the global pandemic that is COVID-19. Meanwhile, there has been hope for many with the introduction of vaccines and boosters; reintegration into society…
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The number of United States adults saying they have returned to living their “normal, pre-COVID-19 life” has more than doubled over the past six months, survey results show. Increasing numbers…
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Studies have shown that the same active ingredients in sunscreens that protect people from cancer-causing ultraviolet rays can be toxic to a range of species in oceans, rivers and lakes.…
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Monkeypox is caused by a virus that, despite periodic outbreaks, is not thought to spread easily from person to person and historically has not spurred long chains of transmission within…