by Susan Keown | Apr 4, 2024 | ScienceWire
For High Country News, Sarah Trent focuses on the way that Vancouver, Wash., city officials communicated with the public about the results of their tests on the city’s water for the “forever chemicals” known as PFAS and the risks they pose, especially to young kids....
by Susan Keown | Oct 11, 2023 | ScienceWire
In Scientific American, Ashli Blow (@ashliblow) takes us to California’s Central Valley to explain how a fungus in soil is making people — largely farmworkers and construction workers — sick with a condition known as “Valley Fever.” Those who fall ill experience...
by Susan Keown | Sep 2, 2023 | ScienceWire
In a feature for Undark, Wudan Yan (@wudanyan) takes us to Bangladesh’s spice markets, where vendors sell turmeric — until recently, often color-enhanced with lead chromate. The country practically eliminated turmeric adulteration through a multinational collaboration...
by Susan Keown | Jul 7, 2023 | ScienceWire
For the Daily Beast, Katie MacBride (@msmacb) speaks to experts in virus transmission and workplace safety about proposed new masking guidelines for health care workers from a CDC advisory panel. The experts strongly believe the proposed guidelines will put workers at...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
New member Leila Okahata (@LeilaOkahata) writes for UCLA’s Daily Bruin about research that discovered some of the biological basis for the link between experiences of discrimination and poor health. The researchers discovered changes in patterns of connectivity in...
