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Maternal Health on the Frontlines of Climate Change

Maternal Health Task Force

Climate change is not just a looming environmental crisis; it is also a significant threat to maternal health, amplifying existing vulnerabilities and inequalities. Pregnant women face heightened risks due to climate-related factors such as extreme heat, tornadoes, volcanoes, droughts, and floods.

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Rachel Schattman – Sustainable management & community engagement are the keys

Frontiers

She is also a fellow with The George J Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions and an associate of the University of Maine Climate Change Institute. Photo credit: Karrah Kwasnik What encouraged you to work towards sustainability, more specifically on climate change issues and sustainable agriculture?

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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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Up, up, and away

Your Local Epidemiologist

Influenza-like illnesses: Moderate and increasing The climate of respiratory health in the United States—which the CDC defines as “influenza-like illnesses” (ILI)—has crossed the “epidemic” threshold and is growing. So, a quick dose of hand sanitizer doesn’t work.

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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.