Without access to soap and clean water, more than 2 billion people in low- and middle-income nations—a quarter of the world’s population—have a greater likelihood
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Initial reports from the front line of the COVID-19 pandemic suggested that health-care workers were at high risk for moral injury. Moral injury, often associated
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The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t changed the fact that bystanders play a crucial role in improving survival rates for cardiac arrest. But providing potentially lifesaving CPR
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War, torture, human trafficking and extreme poverty are just some of the appalling experiences to which refugees are exposed, both before and during their flight.
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Environmental biologists at the University of Stirling have warned that the potential spread of COVID-19 via sewage “must not be neglected” in the battle to
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Certain genetic changes, termed “pathogenic variants,” substantially increase risk for cardiovascular disease and cancer—the leading causes of death—but testing to identify individual carriers is not
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Suicide is now the second most common cause of death among American youth. Fatal suicides rose 30 percent between 2000 and 2016, and 2016 alone
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said: “COVID-19 is a new disease and there is limited information regarding risk factors for severe disease. “Based
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The coronavirus pandemic is keeping us at home due to widespread unemployment, school closures and social distancing. This has already led to concerns about an
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A protein linked to heart attacks can identify which patients with an irregular heart beat have an increased risk of death, new research shows. The
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