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…
Lucas Henneman, George Mason University Air pollution particles from coal-fired power plants are more harmful to human health than many experts realized, and it’s more than twice as likely to contribute to…
Peter Kasson, University of Virginia COVID-19, flu, mpox, noroviral diarrhea: How do the viruses that cause these diseases actually infect you? Viruses cannot replicate on their own, so they must infect cells…
Aimee Pugh Bernard, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus For immune health, some influencers seem to think the Goldilocks philosophy of “just right” is overrated. Why settle for less immunity when you…
Emily Howerton, Penn State; Cecile Viboud, National Institutes of Health, and Justin Lessler, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill How can anyone decide on the best course of action in a…
Kavita Babu, UMass Chan Medical School Buying drugs on the street is a game of Russian roulette. From Xanax to cocaine, drugs or counterfeit pills purchased in nonmedical settings may contain life-threatening…
C. Michael White, University of Connecticut The drug ketamine can reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, and symptoms of depression in patients as early as a day after injection.…
Ivan Erill, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Have you ever wondered whether the virus that gave you a nasty cold can catch one itself? It may comfort you to know that, yes,…
Richard Buka, University of Birmingham and Samantha Montague, University of Birmingham AstraZeneca in partnership with the University of Oxford developed one of the first vaccines against COVID. The vaccine, which used an…
Nicole Lynch, Purdue University and Shannon Pickett, Purdue University Postpartum depression can affect anyone, and it often sneaks in quietly, like a shadow in the corners of a new mother’s life. It…
Trevor Thompson, University of Greenwich and Sofia Stathi, University of Greenwich White people who visit hospital emergency departments with pain are 26% more likely than Black people to be given opioid pain…