As the coronavirus crisis heats up, why isn't America hearing from the CDC? ~health Article 1323 words 17 votes
Preliminary evidence suggests Bay Area shelter-in-place order is flattening the curve ~health Article 1004 words 11 votes
Public health responses to COVID-19 outbreaks on cruise ships — Worldwide, February–March 2020 ~health Article 3537 words 3 votes
Swedish PM Stefan Löfven warned over 'Russian roulette-style' Covid-19 strategy – health experts say attempt to build herd immunity is a 'mad experiment with 10m people' ~health Article 1181 words 6 votes
Meet seventeen-year-old Avi Schiffmann who runs a coronavirus tracking website used by 40+ million globally ~health Video 14:02, published Mar 17 2020 6 votes
The UK backs away from “herd immunity” coronavirus proposal amid blowback ~health Article 1178 words 7 votes
Anyone arriving in Australia from overseas will to be forced to self-isolate for fourteen days ~health Article 972 words 9 votes
US Food and Drug Administration worried about blood shortage as donation drives are canceled amid coronavirus concerns ~health healthcare Article 671 words 8 votes
Rep. Katie Porter gets US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief to agree to pay for coronavirus testing ~health Article 9 votes
‘It’s just everywhere already’: How delays in testing set back the US coronavirus response ~health Article 2745 words 15 votes
The White House has ordered federal health officials to treat top-level coronavirus meetings as classified ~health Article 845 words 29 votes
Hand-washing with soap and water destroys coronavirus more effectively than hand sanitizer ~health Article 1177 words 27 votes
Why the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention botched its coronavirus testing ~health Article 923 words, published Mar 5 2020 6 votes
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s rocky effort to get Americans tested for coronavirus, explained ~health Article 1970 words 9 votes
Why Taiwan has just forty-two coronavirus cases while neighbors report hundreds or thousands ~health healthcare Article 830 words 12 votes
A future with no future: depression, the left, and the politics of mental health ~health.mental Article 5012 words 11 votes
How DuPont may avoid paying to clean up a toxic 'forever chemical' in the US ~enviro pollution Article 1248 words 10 votes
Is change on the way for Sweden's zero tolerance drug policy? Shifting the focus away from zero tolerance to the pursuit of zero drug-related deaths ~health Link 5 votes
Chinese scholar and outspoken critic directly blames Xi Jinping for severity of viral outbreak ~health Article 718 words 8 votes
The UK has one of the most equitable health care systems in the world. Here’s how. ~health healthcare Article 2974 words 11 votes
Denmark to finally allow gay and bisexual men to give blood – but only after four month abstinence period ~lgbt Article 383 words 24 votes
Wuhan virus: China confirms human-to-human transmission, says medical workers infected ~health Article 577 words 11 votes
Why the government should tax unhealthy foods and subsidise nutritious ones ~health Article 832 words, published Feb 14 2017 11 votes
The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations ~health Article 1359 words 10 votes
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations ~health Article 6 votes
We are in the midst of a mental health crisis – advice about jogging and self-care is not enough ~health.mental Article 832 words 10 votes
The message of measles - As public-health officials confront the largest outbreak in the US in decades, they’ve been fighting as much against dangerous ideas as they have against the disease ~health medicine Article 8361 words 9 votes
Suicide rate for girls has been rising faster than for boys, study finds ~health.mental Article 515 words 13 votes
Shade: It’s a civic resource, an index of inequality, and a requirement for public health. Shade should be a mandate for urban designers ~design urban planning architecture Article 6427 words, published Apr 1 2019 11 votes
No, Lyme disease is not an escaped military bioweapon, despite what conspiracy theorists say ~health Article 1547 words 10 votes
Very rare pathogenic genetic variants detected by SNP-chips are usually false positives: implications for direct-to-consumer genetic testing ~science Article 427 words, published Jul 9 2019 8 votes
This traditional Brazilian raw milk cheese is caught in the crosshairs of a battle over government regulation ~food Article 486 words 6 votes
The West isn’t ready for the long-term health impacts of wildfire smoke ~enviro pollution.air Link 15 votes
A ban on smoking in many public outdoor spaces in Sweden comes into effect on July 1st ~health Link 5 votes
European Drug Report 2019 directly contrasts US drug crisis, tells a story of relative calm ~health Article 1282 words, published Mar 5 2019 7 votes
Science institute that advised EU and UN 'actually industry lobby group' ~health Article 1057 words 10 votes
The cancer capital of America: Eastern Kentucky is poor, remote, and inadequately serviced, and those factors have led to alarming rates of cancer in the area ~health healthcare Article 2937 words 7 votes
Water stays in the pipes longer in shrinking cities – a challenge for public health ~health Article 941 words 5 votes