We have the winners: Unintentional burns in Nepal, submitted by Emaline Laney, and deafness in developing countries, proposed by Christi Batamula and by Matthew Yau, are the Untold Global Health Stories of 2017.
October 27, 2016
Telling kids to “shake it off” after getting tackled in a football game might not be the safest advice. An imaging study posted yesterday in the journal Radiology revealed that the brains of football players ages 8 to 13 showed signs of traumatic injury even if the…
August 15, 2016
Architect Craig Hodgetts, who 40 years ago envisioned an elevated, wide-body bus to straddle New York City traffic, finds the latest iteration of the concept fundamentally flawed.
May 16, 2016
Iraqi children suffer higher rates of injuries—and not just from explosives and other war-related causes, according to a study published in Surgery. The Numbers:
May 4, 2016
James McWilliams’ brief history of drowning begins with an intriguing question for public health: “How do we prevent drowning, when humans were likely never meant to swim?” Swimming doesn’t come naturally to humans; drowning does. It’s is the 5th-leading cause of death from…
April 11, 2016
Despite common public response that “speed reductions are absurd,” São Paulo, Brazil is lowering the speed limit on roads in order to save lives and reduce congestion. Convinced by evidence showing that slower cities are safer cities, Sao Paulo is joining the likes of Paris…
March 14, 2016
Out of concern for public health, Vox reminds us to be careful out there today. If you’re in the US (and not Arizona or Hawaii http://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/arizona-no-dst.html), you’re likely a bit bleary and moving slowly because yesterday at 2 a.m., we “sprang…
July 24, 2015
In Bangladesh, a new school is trying to fill the gap in the number of clinicians who can make artificial limbs, braces and splints. For a country this size, 1,100 would be the target number of trained professionals. Right now, they have 25.