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Supreme Court Decision on Idaho Abortion Case Adds to ‘Chaos, Confusion’

June 28, 2024

Jonathan Lee and Ameera Saba install a heat sensor in a tree while Isabella Gambill and Adam Lauziere-Vecanski look on.

Environmental Health

Heatwave Watch

June 20, 2024

Black Woman Suffering From Headache in Clinic

food insecurity

More than 1 in 10 Patients at FQHCs Experience Major Social Risk Factors

June 17, 2024

A photo of Makayla Cox, who died of a fentanyl overdose at age 16, is displayed among other portraits on "The Faces of Fentanyl" wall, which displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. - America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that weve seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, its that deadly instantaneously."

Global Health

One-third of US Adults Know Someone Who Has Died from Drug Overdose

June 6, 2024

Polarization In US Politics and divided America political symbol for government dysfunction in the United States as a two party system election.

healthcare system

Excluding Partisanship Questions from Public Health Surveys ‘Limits Our Capacity for Advancing Population Health and Health Equity’

June 4, 2024

More than friendship between two women. Multicultural love without boundaries.

transgender health

Majority of Youth Are Willing to Answer Questions About Their Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity

May 31, 2024

Merrimack River. Credit: Merrimack River Watershed Council

water pollutants

Sewage Overflows Linked to Increase in Gastrointestinal Illnesses

May 23, 2024

A commercial plane flying over a residential area in the afternoon

health inequities

Airplane Noise Exposure May Increase Risk of Chronic Disease

May 23, 2024

Packages of Wegovy

Global Health

Professor Receives Grant to Study Effectiveness of GLP-1 Weight-Loss Drugs

May 17, 2024

Professor and students in lecture hall

LGBTQIA+ health

‘Out’ LGBTQ+ Faculty Help Students Feel Seen and Accepted

May 4, 2024