Scientists issue warning about looming threat impacting human health: ‘Not a distant crisis’
A new study warns that melting ice at the poles is an "underrecognized driver" of serious global health risks. What's...
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Gene that human ancestors lost millions of years ago could help treat gout
Millions of years ago, humans' ancestors lost the function of a specific gene — but switching that gene back on...
Plastics and Human Health: The Hidden Global Crisis
Plastics aren’t just cluttering beaches and jamming up recycling bins. They’re now a “grave, growing, and under-recognized danger” to human...
Global ‘plastic crisis’ costing $1.5 trillion per year in human health impacts: Report
As global consumption grows, the world is facing a “plastic crisis” that only seems to be worsening, according to a...
DRC in Crisis: The Human Cost of U.S. Aid Cuts Amid the M23 Rebellion
In the six weeks since M23 rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo staged a violent takeover of Goma, a major...
The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say
Plastics can contain thousands of different chemicals, many of them linked to cancer and reproductive harm, and many never...
A global foresight report on planetary health and human wellbeing | UNEP
This mirrors the growing interest and demand for foresight that is also reinforced by the United Nations reform agenda and...
Policy Innovation Is Outpacing Technology at the Intersection of Health Care and Human Services
The stereotype of the technology sector designing bright shiny objects that usher the rest of us into the future is...
Human Brain Development Sequencing Reveals New Gene Transcripts
Kateryna Kon//Science Photo Library/CanvaUCLA and University of Pennsylvania researchers have uncovered over 200,000 new gene transcripts in the developing human...
