Ebola is once again in news headlines around the world, with hundreds of cases confirmed in central Africa. What have we learned from the 2013 outbreak about this deadly disease and about our own ability to handle such an epidemic?
Environmental monitoring will be key as the world reaches global polio eradication. Looking for poliovirus in sewage and using new disease models will improve how we track and understand each outbreak.
A Nobel Peace Prize for Dr. Denis Mukwege brings to the fore the upstream factors that create conditions for sexual violence, such as trafficking in minerals essential to the electronic devices we use every day.
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.
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.