This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Approximately one-quarter of the global population are women of reproductive age, most of whom menstruate every month. A core function of a woman’s reproductive system, menstruation is a healthy and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When you breathe in smoke from a wildfire, you’re probably inhaling more toxic chemicals than you realize. Pollution from power plants and vehicles, pesticides, fertilizers and chemicals in waste can…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Booster vaccines fortify the antibody response sufficiently to deliver a substantial increase in protection against the Omicron variant, researchers say. The Omicron variant is more prone to escape antibodies produced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Children of color have been the most impacted by this compounded trauma of the pandemic: a study co-led by Harvard professor of pediatrics Charles Nelson found that about one in four children…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Earlier this year, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) published data showing a 1.5-year decline in national life expectancy in 2020, largely due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which took the lives…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Small risk pools may contribute to rural areas’ challenges with private insurance plans, but risk reinsurance, or insurance for the insurer, could be a potential policy solution, according to a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Like many inventions, the discovery of Teflon happened by accident. In 1938, chemists from Dupont (now Chemours) were studying refrigerant gases when, much to their surprise, one concoction solidified. Upon…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. New pandemic-era flexibility that allowed audio-only health visits to be routinely reimbursed as telehealth may be leading to substandard care for those it was meant to serve. Prior to the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. At the beginning of 2021, Catalina Jaramillo had just started working as a staff writer at FactCheck.org, investigating and correcting misleading information about COVID-19 in Spanish. Immigrant communities were facing a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In the wake of the 2015-16 European migrant and refugee crisis, mental health has emerged as a critical issue—not only for the well-being of asylum seekers who may have experienced…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It has been six months since the first case of COVID-19 was reported in South Africa. From the onset, it was clear that the spread of the virus would impact the country…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the past year, there has been an increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers attempting to reach the UK by crossing the English Channel. This guest blog…