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Most Americans support organ donation, but only about half are registered as donors. Empirical data can help us understand our hesitations, but for many of us, becoming a donor is also an emotional decision.
More than 2,300 children were separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border between May and June 2018. University of Michigan experts weigh in on how the trauma of long-term separation from their parents effects a child’s development.
As transplant surgeries become ever more successful and more socially accepted, demand for transplants goes up. But popular media do not always reflect the organ donation process accurately.
Uniform, high-input farms, the hallmark of modern intensive agriculture, have produced an abundance of food unimaginable at the start of the last century. But a healthy diet remains out of reach for billions worldwide.
Much of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste in our oceans is made up of microplastics. They are now turning up everywhere, and we know virtually nothing about their impact on human health.
In 1954, the CEOs of every major US tobacco company gathered in New York City to plan a coordinated response to public opinion on tobacco. The portrait of who smokes today has changed since then, but the tobacco marketplace will morph.