Sean Campbell, Investigative journalist, The Conversation; Charlene Harrington, Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco The care at Landmark of Louisville Rehabilitation and Nursing was abysmal when state inspectors filed their survey report of the Kentucky facility on…
Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Villanova School of Law The price of asthma medication has soared in the U.S. over the past decade and a half. The jump – in some cases from around a little over US$10 to almost $100 for an inhaler…
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Dennis M. Gorman, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Texas A&M University Early…
Annie Margaret, Teaching Assistant Professor of Creative Technology & Design, ATLAS Institute,…
Marcia G. Ory, Texas A&M University Time in the era of COVID-19 has taken on new meaning. “Blursday” is the new time word of the year – where every day seems the…
Liberty Vittert, Washington University in St Louis Scientists in China published the complete genetic sequence of SARS-CoV-2 on Jan. 10, 2020. On Dec. 8, 2020, health officials in London began administering an…
Zoë McLaren, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Soon, people in the U.S. will be able to pick up a rapid antigen test for COVID-19 from their local drugstore without a prescription, test…
Libby Richards, Purdue University Many of us have heard: “Don’t go outside without a coat; you’ll catch a cold.” That’s not exactly true. As with many things, the reality is more complicated.…
Shelly Miller, University of Colorado Boulder The vast majority of SARS-CoV-2 transmission occurs indoors, mostly from the inhalation of airborne particles that contain the coronavirus. But in spite of the obvious risks…
Mark A. Gluck, Rutgers University – Newark ; Bernadette A. Fausto, Rutgers University – Newark , and Lisa Charles, Rutgers University – Newark Older adults, especially those over 65, have five times…
Diana Cuy Castellanos, University of Dayton Being food-insecure – unable to get enough nutritious food to meet your needs – can take a toll on your health. So Dayton Children’s Hospital has…
Source: (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool) The first dose of Pfizer’s Wuhan coronavirus vaccine was met with a “serious” allergic reaction by a female healthcare worker from Alaska, who was then hospitalized on…
Kaitlin Woolley, Cornell University and Peggy Liu, University of Pittsburgh People often eat more than usual around the holidays – and this year more than most as the pandemic prompts many to…
Tamra Burns Loeb, UCLA School of Medicine and Dorothy Chin, UCLA School of Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the reality that health in the U.S. has glaring racial inequities. Since March,…
