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,…
Ann Christiano, University of Florida and Jack J. Barry, University of Florida The pharmaceutical companies Pfizer and BioNtech announced Nov. 20, 2020, that they will seek emergency use authorization from the Food…
J. Robin Moon, City University of New York In 2019, about 567,715 homeless people were living in the United States. While this number had been steadily decreasing since 2007, in the past…
Every day, nearly one million Americans flood airports and fill up planes to travel during the weekend despite government officials warning of the rising coronavirus cases in the last few weeks and…
The Toxic Chemical Ban Transforms from Bill to Law At the end of September of this year, Governor Gavin Newsom signed a toxic chemical ban, marking California’s new law to change many…
Partho Sengupta, West Virginia University COVID-19 can do some pretty scary things to the human heart. It can trigger blood clots in severe cases and cause inflammation and scarring. New research now…
Melissa Hawkins, American University Editor’s note: After this story was published, the Centers for Disease Control updated its guidance for celebrating Thanksgiving. The new guidance, announced on Nov. 19, recommends that people…
Carol Mathews, University of Florida Symptoms of depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorders have emerged or worsened for many during the pandemic. This is no surprise to clinicians and scientists, who have…
Zoë McLaren, University of Maryland, Baltimore County COVID-19 cases are surging upward around the U.S., reaching 100,000 daily cases for the first time on Nov. 4 and 150,000 only eight days later.…
Pamela M. Aaltonen, Purdue University As Americans prepare for the first Thanksgiving in the time of the coronavirus, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a stark warning a week before…
Sierra Carter, Georgia State University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea I’m part of a research team that has been following more than 800…
