by Christina Silva | Aug 21, 2024 | Blog
Source: JAMA Network By Monique Brouillette, MS In the spring of 2020, Maddy Kline was finishing her first year of medical school at Harvard and things were not going as expected. As the COVID-19 pandemic was surging across the nation, it was highlighting...
by Christina Silva | Jan 3, 2024 | Blog
Source: Yahoo! News Written By: Kristen Lawrence Doctors save lives every day, and now they’re trying to rescue the planet as well. The United States healthcare sector produces an estimated 8.5% of the country’s planet-warming pollution, according to...
by ChristinaSilva | Oct 14, 2020 | Blog
Doctors are urging medical residency programs to include content about health impacts of climate change in curricula. Climate change increases risks of heat-related illness, infections, asthma, mental health disorders, poor perinatal outcomes, adverse experiences from...
by David Rosado | Oct 27, 2015 | 2015, Blog, October
By Robert Preidt via health.usnews.com Dirtier air, heat stress, greater exposure to Lyme disease — these and other threats to children will increase because of climate change, a leading group of U.S. pediatricians warns. Doctors and policy makers must take...