Public’s Voice Needed, Even in a Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Trump White House should not take advantage of a pandemic to ram regulations through without public input.
Food Poisoning: Climate Change Threatens Health of Billions
Reading Time: 3 minutes New study says global warming could trigger potentially calamitous increase in arsenic levels while reducing rice crop yields.
Life by Chocolate
Reading Time: 3 minutes Innovative students in Scotland are reviving the ancient natural remedy of chocolate, aiming to ease ailments like fatigue and premenstrual syndrome.
Discovered — A Previously Unknown Structure in the Human Body
Reading Time: 2 minutes Researchers have identified the body’s white-blood-cell freeway system — which could be harnessed to help cure disease.
Study Shows We’re Hurtling Toward a Climate-Related Health Crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes A review article in the ‘New England Journal of Medicine’ calls for drastic action to stop climate change-related deaths and an increase in global inequality.
Tiny Robot Drug Delivery Service — Into Your Eyes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Squeamish readers should probably look away now, as this is a story about tiny robots burrowing into eyeballs.
Second Hand Smoke Causing a Western Smog Age
Reading Time: 3 minutes Seattle has become dangerous this week — along with a lot of the western United States — as smoke particles block out the sun and block up lungs.
Why Marching for Life Now Means Attacking Contraception
Reading Time: 6 minutes Federal funding for contraception is in the crosshairs of Republicans as they push their anti-abortion agenda.
Light Stuff: Fashionable But Toxic
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here’s some more things to worry about! Fashion articles that can damage your health—or those on your shopping list.
Re-Envisioning Our Environment
Reading Time: 4 minutes From Living Bridges, to the World’s Cheapest Light bulb – Bright Ideas to Rethink our Environment