What is the HIPAA Privacy Rule? A health law scholar explains

While the HIPAA Privacy Rule prevents health care providers from sharing your health information without your permission, it doesn’t prevent other people from asking you about it.

Margaret Riley, Professor of Law, Public Health Sciences, and Public Policy, University of Virginia • conversation
July 26, 2021 ~4 min

Low- and middle-income countries lack access to big data analysis – here's how to fill the gap

Data science infrastructure is sorely needed in many places. Doctors Without Borders brings medical help to nations in need, but similar efforts are relatively small for statistics.

Eric Vance, Associate Professor and Director of LISA, University of Colorado Boulder • conversation
July 20, 2021 ~8 min


The environmental toll of disposable masks

A new study calculates the waste generated by N95 usage and suggests possible ways to reduce it.

Anne Trafton | MIT News Office • mit
July 20, 2021 ~8 min

Lockdowns reveal inequities in opportunities for walking activities

Research finds Covid-19-related lockdowns led to a marked reduction in walking in lower-income areas of major metropolises.

Stephanie M. McPherson | Sociotechnical Systems Research Center • mit
July 19, 2021 ~8 min

What's in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist explains the health risks and which masks can help

New research found that smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, carried high concentrations of lead. An environmental toxicologist explains what else you're breathing and how to stay safe.

Luke Montrose, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Health, Boise State University • conversation
July 15, 2021 ~8 min

What's in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist explains the health risks

New research found that smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, carried high concentrations of lead. An environmental toxicologist explains what else you're breathing and how to stay safe.

Luke Montrose, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Health, Boise State University • conversation
July 15, 2021 ~8 min

What's in wildfire smoke? A toxicologist warns there are lots of dangerous components

New research found that smoke from the Camp Fire in Paradise, California, carried high concentrations of lead. An environmental toxicologist explains what else you're breathing and how to stay safe.

Luke Montrose, Assistant Professor of Community and Environmental Health, Boise State University • conversation
July 15, 2021 ~8 min

Rare genetic variants confer largest increase in type 2 diabetes risk seen to date

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have identified rare genetic variants – carried by one in 3,000 people – that have a larger impact on the risk of

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 7, 2021 ~4 min


British consumers complicit in forty-year ‘healthy eating’ failure, new study suggests

‘Healthy eating’ campaigns have largely failed in Britain for the last four decades because consumers have adapted confusing advice, and incorporated fast and

Cambridge University News • cambridge
July 1, 2021 ~9 min

New approach could change how we track extreme air pollution events

Study demonstrates the power of low-cost air quality sensors during volcanic eruption.

Stephanie Martinovich | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
June 30, 2021 ~8 min

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