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- In the Future, How Will We Feed Ourselves?The growing population requires more food. How will food production processes meet the demand?
- In the Future, Will You Get Food by Prescription?A movement is growing to approach food as if it were literal medicine by tailoring meals to treat specific conditions.
- Looking Back to Look Forward: Milestones in Food TechnologyFocusing on food goes back to prehistoric times. Here's a look at significant milestones from ancient times until today.
- How Climate Change Is Affecting Our FoodWeather events can affect our food supply by destroying crops and farmlands, or by triggering swarms of pests like locusts.
- Fewer Black Men Get High-Tech Prostate Cancer TherapyTwo new studies show Black prostate cancer patients get proton beam therapy (PBT) less often than white patients.
- COVID at 2 Years: Preparing for a Different 'Normal'Will the pandemic ever officially end? And what could that look like? Will it simply become endemic, a known risk like the flu?
- How the Pandemic Led to Disarray -- and DiscoveryCOVID-19 has disrupted the speed of science, upending our understanding of infectious disease, science, and each other.
- The Virus Within: How Misinformation Made the Pandemic Worse What role did politics and misinformation have in response to the pandemic, and the cost in time, lives, and faith in our ability to handle a crisis?
- The Pandemic Has Changed Us, Permanently The effects of the pandemic may linger, changing how we work, interact, think about our safety, and think about our fellow citizens.
- COVID-19 Survivors and Experts Share Pandemic's 'Silver Linings' What are the positive things we learned or experienced during the pandemic, as well as reasons for hope going forward?
- Mistrust, Politics, and Vaccines: How We Got Here, How We Fix ItSome Americans reveal that their COVID-19 vaccine reluctance stems from an already skeptical worldview, with mixed messaging only heightening their suspicions.
- Changing Minds: What Moves the Needle for the Unvaccinated?With just over half of eligible Americans fully vaccinated, that leaves millions on the fence. How do you coax them to safety? Experts say empathy and a willingness to "live in that space" helps.
- COVID Vaccine 'In-Betweeners': Who They Are, Why They're HesitantHealth concerns, a disabling fear of needles, a general mistrust of medicine and more are among the reasons some people remain hesitant about COVID-19 vaccination. Just don't call them anti-vaxxers.
- Don't Let Salmonella Make Your Thanksgiving a TurkeyIn a new report, researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention detail the tracking of a recent multistate outbreak of salmonella infections linked to raw turkey products.
- Cancer Risks Spur Calls to Replace Ethylene OxideThe current outcry from communities that have been exposed to the carcinogen ethylene oxide has federal regulators and device makers seriously rethinking a question that’s been hanging over the sterilization industry for decades: Can ethylene oxide be replaced?
- Ongoing Coverage: Ethylene Oxide EmissionsWebMD and Georgia Health News' ongoing coverage about ethylene oxide emissions coming from medical sterilization plants Smyrna and Covington, GA. An EPA report find higher cancer risks in three nearby census tracts due to the toxic gas.
- Local Air Testing for Toxic Gas Closer to RealityMeanwhile, the state Environmental Protection Division this week revealed results of an initial sample test for ethylene oxide at its South DeKalb monitoring station.
- GA Governor To Investigate Toxic Air At PlantsGeorgia Gov. Brian Kemp says he is working with government officials to investigate toxic air emissions from two medical sterilization plants in the state.
- Residents, Leaders 'Shocked' by Toxic Air ReportOn Friday, WebMD and Georgia Health News revealed that Georgia had three census tracts the EPA identified as having elevated cancer risks because of a toxic gas called ethylene oxide.
- Residents Unaware of Cancer-Causing Toxin in AirFederal data show an increased cancer risk to neighborhoods across the country around plants that emit a gas called ethylene oxide, which is used to sterilize medical equipment.
- How Grief Shows Up In Your BodyThe sadness and other emotions you experience with grief can have a physical effect on you, too.
- The Grief Experience: Survey Shows It's ComplicatedA new WebMD survey finds many people are experiencing grief for more than a year and that losing friendships can cause intense grief similar to when someone dies.
- ‘Grief: Beyond the 5 Stages’ Survey MethodologyThe WebMD survey, "Grief: Beyond the 5 Stages," was done by AmeriSpeak®, which is funded and operated by the independent research institution NORC at the University of Chicago.
- America's Sleepless Nights: In Pursuit of RestIt's been called a public health crisis. But what's behind the explosion of sleepless nights for tens of millions of us?
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