Tag: Public Health

Following years of concern, the US Environmental Protection Agency moved this week to clean up drinking water, announcing the nation’s first ...

In the late 2000s, Carlos Monteiro noticed something strange about the food that Brazilian people were eating. The nutritionist had ...

The changing nature of the virus also makes it difficult to conduct human clinical trials and get a new antibody ...

To an unfamiliar eye, the press release from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health two weeks ago looked pretty routine. ...

Since Omicron became the world’s dominant Covid variant, it’s taken on a lot of shapes. First there was BA.1, then BA.5, ...

For a few weeks this summer, the world worried that monkeypox might become the next global pandemic. At the peak ...

Racial inequity biases algorithms, skews Covid-19 death rates, and exacerbates the digital divide. Your race is even a good predictor ...

The Aedes aegypti mosquito is not just a nuisance—it’s a known carrier of dengue, yellow fever, chikungunya, and Zika viruses. Distinguished by ...

It was overuse of acetaminophen that finally led to Nic Petermann’s cancer diagnosis. For months, the then 26-year-old had been ...

What then, is the best recourse for activists and aid organizations? In both access-friendly states and those with bans, campus ...