This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Elizabeth Yeampierre watched tree branches whip past her windows on the evening of October 29, 2012, as Superstorm Sandy slammed into New York City. She had spent years warning of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of several healthcare innovations by social entrepreneurs in India. However, one of the biggest challenges they face is moving from pilot to…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. After decades of steadily declining, air pollution is once again on the rise in the United States. Between 2016 and 2018, pollution of fine particulate matter — tiny particles that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When Florida Rep. Anna Eskamani was 13, her mother died before she could ask her about the changes her body would soon be going through. She was introduced to sex…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In fall 2019, before anyone had ever heard of COVID-19, California legislators were trying to pass a bill aimed at increasing childhood vaccination. Five years previously, someone at Disneyland had…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, looked at people taking immunosuppressive medications to treat chronic inflammatory diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis. Since a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Human-caused emissions of air pollutants fell during last year’s COVID-19 economic slowdowns, improving air quality in some parts of the world, while wildfires and sand and dust storms in 2020…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since 1985, cancer-related nonprofits, along with pharmaceutical firms and other businesses, have sponsored an international campaign to observe October as “Breast Cancer Awareness Month.” During these weeks, the public is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Public health officials and outside experts warned the federal government for years before the coronavirus pandemic that the US was not focusing enough on public health prevention. They were proven right. Now…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The impact of domestic violence is not unknown to homeless service providers: research consistently shows that high numbers of people experiencing homelessness have also survived domestic violence. For some it…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The findings, in JAMA Internal Medicine, highlight fading economic opportunity as a driving factor in the ongoing national opioid epidemic, and build on previous research that links declining participation in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Slowing the pace of climate change, increasing access to health care and comprehensively covering the news are very different but worthy goals with some things in common. One is gridlock.…