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  • Rooting Out Misleading Medical Research

    The Conversation Aug 18, 2022

    If you are suffering with chronic pain, diabetes, heart problems or any other condition, you want to be confident that your doctor will offer you an effective treatment. You certainly…

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  • How Easy Access to Guns at Home Contributes to America’s Youth Suicide Problem

    The Conversation Aug 18, 2022

    School shootings in the U.S. are national tragedies, and the toll they take in lives cut short and traumatized distinguishes the U.S. from other high-income countries. But there is another…

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  • How NYC Congestion Pricing Will Help Reduce Emissions

    Grist Aug 17, 2022

    New York City has been debating the merits of charging drivers a fee for entering its central business district for decades. Known as “congestion pricing,” it’s a strategy that major…

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  • How Companies Can Foster Health Equity

    FSG Aug 17, 2022

    Society is asking the private sector to play a larger role in advancing equity. For the second year in a row, respondents to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer ranked business as the…

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  • The U.S. Federal Government Has More Lessons to Learn in Navigating Public Health Emergencies

    RAND Corporation Aug 16, 2022

    Several recent announcements have demonstrated how little has been learned from the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential need for a national reckoning to assess shortfalls and develop recommendations for…

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  • A Promising New Suicide Prevention Program

    Futurity Aug 16, 2022

    A new guide for clinicians, researchers, and mental health practitioners describes an evidence-based suicide prevention program. For every person who died by suicide in 2020, 25 more made an attempt,…

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  • Heat Indexes May Be Underestimating Current Temperatures

    Environmental News Network Aug 16, 2022

    If you looked at the heat index during this summer’s sticky heat waves and thought, “It sure feels hotter!,” you may be right. An analysis by climate scientists at the…

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  • The Impact of Abortion Bans on Individuals With Substance Abuse Disorders

    RAND Corporation Aug 16, 2022

    The criminalization of abortion in some states after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision poses especially harmful health and economic consequences for pregnant women from vulnerable populations, including Black, Latinx, or Indigenous people and those…

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    Housing Justice as a Road to Racial Justice and Health Equity

    Grantmakers In Health Aug 15, 2022

    Having a stable, safe, and affordable place to call home impacts our ability to be healthy. But because America’s foundational housing policies and systems intentionally excluded Black, Indigenous, and other…

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  • Studies Indicate Food Insecurity is Exacerbated When Avoiding Tap Water

    Futurity Aug 13, 2022

    New findings link food insecurity and avoiding tap water. For nearly 61 million Americans, tap water is either unavailable or untrusted. New research shows for the first time that, in…

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  • The Impact of Climate Change on Infectious Disease Pathways

    The Conversation Aug 13, 2022

    Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common waterborne viruses to deadly diseases like plague, our new research…

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  • How Brain Health Research Connects to Economic and Health Outcomes

    Brookings Aug 13, 2022

    Carol Graham, the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and director of research in Global Economy and Development, who is an expert on a range of issues related to happiness, the economics…

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