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Here’s what we all should learn from that scary tampon study

Association of Health Care Journalists

That’s more of a spot check, as Lisa Gill , a health and medicine investigative reporter at Consumer Reports, told me. That’s not because it would harm the companies named — it’s because it could distract from the larger public health issue that might (emphasis on “might”) exist here and the need for further research to find out. “It

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Rural water utilities in North Carolina are still reeling from Helene

NC Health News

The landscape along the creeks and mountainsides has been forever changed. Everyone has had to adjust to these changes and more, even as they’ve dealt with similar problems at home. He is an engineering professor at North Carolina State University who focuses on sanitation systems. It’s been that way everywhere.