Tag: health

“We are one step closer to protecting the health of Americans from these toxic forever chemicals.”

"U.S. life expectancy at birth for 2020, based on nearly final data, was 77.3 years, the lowest it has been since 2003."

Homogenizing peoples’ reasons for not getting vaccinated diverts attention away from social factors that research shows play a critical role in health status and outcomes.

Power, wealth, and justice in the time of COVID-19.

In some cases, the impact on residents’ lungs is worse than living beside a highway or being exposed to secondhand smoke every day.

Researchers said the total health impacts of the plants could amount to $6.2 billion a year.

A court has ruled that the EPA must ban the controversial pesticide chlorpyrifos—or prove its safety.

“The world needs 10 to 15 billion doses to reach herd immunity, and right now all of the global production together is on track to make 6 billion doses this year.”

"The problem is not getting vaccines out of COVAX; the problem is getting them in."

The global economy and a concerted effort, coordination and imagination is needed to enable not only a worldwide recovery, but also to ensure that the world’s poorest people are not left behind.