By David Cutler, PhD, and Francesca Dominici, PhD President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt have pledged to reexamine landmark environmental policies and to repeal regulations. In their view, excessive regulations are harming US industry, and… Read More ›
Consider 2 US health agencies: One regulates drugs and biologics, medical devices, tobacco and cosmetics, and most of the food we eat. The other regulates the use of chemicals in the environment, the water we drink, and the air we… Read More ›
By Howard K. Koh, MD, MPH, and Gina A. McCarthy, MS Three developments in late 2017 heightened attention to the critical intersection between science, climate change, and health: The US Global Change Research Program’s Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) identified… Read More ›
Every 30 seconds, someone dies in a road traffic crash, and 10 people are seriously injured. Road traffic mortality is the fifth leading cause of death in the world, resulting in 1.25 million deaths globally in 2013. For young people… Read More ›
As overdose deaths mount, leading to a decline in US life expectancy 2 years in a row, my New Year’s wish is for more people to appreciate this statement: Not all well-intentioned approaches to addressing the opioid epidemic are good… Read More ›
By Dave A. Chokshi, MD, and Christopher C. Jennings Latent natural resources are those that exist in our world today, waiting to be tapped. Think of wind before windmills. Or in a more modern example, private apartments before Airbnb. What… Read More ›
Solving the unrelenting opioid crisis has become a pressing national priority. As evidence, the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis recently urged President Trump to declare “a national emergency under either the Public Health Service Act… Read More ›
