How unhealthy is red meat? And how beneficial is it to eat vegetables? A new rating system could help you cut through the health guidelines
Health guidelines can feel contradictory and hard to interpret. But a new star rating system should help consumers and policymakers better parse the evidence behind health risks and outcomes.
Jeffrey Stanaway, Assistant Professor of Global Health and Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington •
conversation
Oct. 21, 2022 • ~6 min
Oct. 21, 2022 • ~6 min
COVID-19 can cause lasting lung damage – 3 ways long COVID patients' respiration can suffer
Understanding how injury and disease, including COVID-19, can impair lung function can help researchers and clinicians better help patients who are experiencing chronic conditions
Alexandra Kadl, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Virginia
• conversation
Sept. 22, 2022 • ~9 min
Sept. 22, 2022 • ~9 min
Extreme heat + air pollution can be deadly, with the health risk together worse than either alone
The worst effects are during high nighttime temperatures, something happening more often with climate change. Wildfires add to the risk.
Rob Scot McConnell, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
• conversation
Aug. 29, 2022 • ~7 min
Aug. 29, 2022 • ~7 min
A warning as a heat wave roasts the US West: Extreme heat + air pollution can be deadly, with the health risk together worse than either alone
The worst effects are during high nighttime temperatures, something happening more often with climate change.
Rob Scot McConnell, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
• conversation
Aug. 29, 2022 • ~7 min
Aug. 29, 2022 • ~7 min
Fierce heat wave is building in the US West: Extreme heat + air pollution can be deadly, with the health risk together worse than either alone
The worst effects are during high nighttime temperatures, something happening more often with climate change.
Rob Scot McConnell, Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, University of Southern California
• conversation
Aug. 29, 2022 • ~7 min
Aug. 29, 2022 • ~7 min
/
16