Les travailleurs qui produisent des plans de travail et autre dispositifs en pierre reconstituée, un matériau utilisé pour rénover les cuisines de millions de foyers, sont exposés à la silicose, une maladie incurable.
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Playing improv music activates the reward system of the brain.
Workers are facing a preventable and incurable lung disease from a material being used to renovate kitchens in millions of American homes.
Fever during pregnancy presents real dangers to both the mother and the fetus – an OB-GYN explains the critical role of acetaminophen in preventing serious outcomes.
Women’s stories of seeking abortions later in pregnancy highlight what’s missing from the current conversation about abortion policies in the US.
Au Sénégal derrière chaque acte tragique d'infanticide se cachent des histoires de désespoir, de stigmatisation et d'injustice reproductive.
Patients with lower socioeconomic status often have more negative healthcare experiences.
Na ausência de uma regulamentação clara, quem deve decidir onde e como uma tecnologia que pode mudar o curso da saúde humana deve ser aplicada?
In the absence of clear-cut regulation, who should decide on where and how a technology that could change the course of human health should be applied?
The new law makes it illegal to possess 2 types of abortion pills without a prescription.
Owners of midsize nursing home chains harm the elderly and drain huge sums of money from facilities using opaque accounting practices while government doesn’t do enough to stop it.
The rate of injury for single-sport adolescents is far higher than for other kids who play a variety of sports.
Owners of midsize nursing home chains drain billions from facilities, hiding behind opaque accounting practices and harming the elderly as government, which has the power to stop it, falls short.
Governments can do more to protect patients at for-profit nursing homes. A behavioral scientist who studies nursing homes weighs in.
Can astronauts spend prolonged time in close quarters millions of miles from Earth without killing each other?
People of color, young people and those with low incomes tend to benefit most from telehealth abortion.
The first-ever imaging and recording of a brainstem structure critical for feeling full could help reveal exactly how weight loss drugs like Ozempic work, and how to make them more effective.
Os morcegos frugívoros podem comer até duas vezes o seu peso corporal em frutas por dia. Mas seus genes e células evoluíram para processar todo esse açúcar sem nenhuma consequência para a saúde - um feito com o qual os desenvolvedores de medicamentos podem aprender.
Fruit bats can eat up to twice their body weight in fruit a day. But their genes and cells evolved to process all that sugar without any health consequences − a feat drug developers can learn from.
Itch-sensing neurons in your skin are intertwined with your immune cells. Counterintuitively, the molecule that connects them triggers responses that both worsen and improve skin conditions.
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Professor Emeritus of Social Behavioral Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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épidémiologiste, University of California, San Francisco
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Assistant Professor of Humanities & Social Sciences, University of California, San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Institute for Health & Aging, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Francisco
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PhD Candidate in Public Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Dermatology, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor, Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences; Director, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor, Pediatric Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate professor, University of California, San Francisco
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Senior Attending Physician in Occupational Health, University of California, San Francisco
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Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Gynecologic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science, University of California, San Francisco
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Professor of Physiology, Kavli Institute for Fundamental Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco