This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Brittany Taylor is a biomedical engineer and assistant professor who studies novel ways to improve bone and tendon healing after injuries. She is exploring drug delivery systems and temporary artificial…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University and Caitlin R. Proctor, Purdue University In recent years wildfires have entered urban areas, causing breathtaking destruction. The 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise and Butte…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Misinformation is content that is false, inaccurate or misleading, even if it is spread unintentionally. A 2016 research study by the Stanford Education Research Group showed that many young people (not unlike…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For the study in Nature Food, researchers conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. “Gay kids are receiving their education the way everybody gets their sex education and unfortunately, that’s by watching porn,” said Bronwen Pardes, a sex educator and author of Doing It…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Deadly car crashes involving both cannabis and alcohol consumption have more than doubled in the United States in the past two decades, as have car crash deaths involving just cannabis,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Washington Center for Equitable Growth has long prioritized the generation of new research on the economic effects of paid family and medical leave in the United States. This line…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles recently announced plans to put 50 clinics inside LA County high schools. Called Wellbeing Centers, the facilities would provide not only physical health services but also mental…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. What did we get from 2021? If that question makes you want to put your head on your desk and sigh, I get it. I understand that urge. But we…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the Philadelphia jail, the number of COVID-19 cases has tripled in the last two months. In Chicago’s lockup, infections have increased 11-fold in the same period. And in New…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the omicron variant brings a new wave of uncertainty and fear, I can’t help reflecting back to March 2020, when people in health care across the U.S. watched in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before COVID-19, there was tuberculosis. Twentieth century British physician Thomas McKeown controversially proposed that the sharp declines in infectious disease death rates in the late 1900s were due to improved…