Environmental Health News

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Yuvelis Natalia Morales Blanco, a Colombian environmental advocate, received her first death threat at 19. Yuvelis, you’re invited to join the public hearing on fracking.” Public safety was nonexistent. I came back to Colombia in December 2022. It was such a downfall. The hearing was January 29, 2021.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

A public agency with offices at 26 Federal Plaza notified the General Services Administration of a case of Legionnaires’ disease among one of its employees recently, THE CITY and Healthbeat have learned. In February, THE CITY reported on the death of a public housing resident in Brooklyn due to Legionnaires’ disease.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 19, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene reported the year’s first human cases of West Nile virus, in four city residents, on Monday. Eliza Fawcett is a reporter covering public health in New York City for Healthbeat.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Many experts attribute this decline to educational, economic, and social factors that have slowed teen birth rates and prompted a growing trend in delayed childrearing until older ages. The web-based preconception cohort study is the largest of its kind worldwide, following thousands of individuals ages 21-45 who are trying to conceive.

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