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• Remember Me? Gender, Race May Make You Forgettable

• News You Can Use -- To Better Predict Food Crisis Outbreaks

• Engineers Examine Drinking Water Management Strategies

• The Adverse Health Effects of Disaster-Related Trauma

• In Some U.S. Zip Codes, Young Men Face More Risk of Firearm Death Than Those Deployed in Recent Wars, Study Finds

• Detrimental Secondary Health Effects After Disasters and Pandemics

• Racism Takes Its Toll on Brain and Body

• Pregnant Moms' Stress May Accelerate Cell Aging of White, Not Black, Kids, Study Finds

• Pandemic Fatigue Fueled Political Mistrust and Conspiracy Beliefs Across Europe and the United States, Study Finds

• Air Pollution High at US Public Schools With Kids from Marginalized Groups

• Financial Strain Due to COVID-19 Pandemic Took Significant Toll on Adolescent Mental Health, Researchers Find

• Heat or Eat? Prepayment Users Consume Less Fruit and Vegetables, Study Finds
• Using 1980s Environmental Modeling to Mitigate Future Disasters: Could Japan's 3/11 Disaster Have Been Prevented?

• Water Is Critical for Success on Climate Action

• Childhood Traumas Strongly Impact Both Mental and Physical Health

• Water Cutoff Countermeasures Using Disaster Emergency Wells

• Teens With COVID-19 Knowledge Reported Better Well-Being

• Double Trouble When 2 Disasters Strike Electrical Transmission Infrastructure

• Amber Fossils from Myanmar

• Algae-Based Food Goes Global: Scaling Up Marine Aquaculture to Produce Nutritious, Sustainable Food
• Blessing or Curse? How the Pandemic and the War Impact Energy Transitions

• Can Shifting Social Norms Help Mitigate Climate Change?
• Global Hunger, Carbon Emissions Could Both Spike If War Limits Grain Exports

• Maintaining Green Parks and Gardens in Cities Has the Potential to Lower the Risk of Crime, Study Suggests

• Professors Call for More Research Into Climate-Change Related Threats to Civilization

• Ethics Not Only Allow but Demand Placebo in Some HIV Cure Trials, Paper Finds
• Hundreds of Hospitals on Atlantic and Gulf Coasts at Risk of Flooding from Hurricanes

• Five Years After Water Crisis, 1 in 5 Flint, Michigan Residents Has PTSD

• Cost of Cancer Treatment Can Impact Health of Survivors

• COVID-19 Amplified Hardship for Many Harvey Victims

• Local Food Boon Spurred by Pandemic May Be Short-Lived, New Research Reports

• Understanding the Expanded Role of Clinical Ethicists

• What Has America Learned Since Hurricane Katrina? Not Enough

• Nuclear War Would Cause a Global Famine and Kill Billions

• Prediction of Human Movement During Disasters to Allow for More Effective Emergency Response

• Life Expectancy Drops for Native Americans Due to COVID-19

• Discrimination Took a Toll on the Mental Health of Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Study Finds

• Implicit Bias and Concern About Appearing Racist Predict Teachers' Reluctance to Discuss Race and Racism in the Classroom

• Racial Discrimination Affects Brain Microstructure, Study Finds

• When Natural Disaster Strikes, These Americans May Not Be Ready

• Where and When Violent Crime Rates Fall, Heart Disease Deaths Fall, Too

• Why Natural Gas Is Not a Bridge Technology

• Music Is Key to Converting Consumers' Good Intentions to Actual Purchases in Ethical and Sustainable Markets

• Who Trusts Gene-Edited Foods? New Study Gauges Public Acceptance

• Global Food Supply-Chain Issues Call for Solutions
• People Less Outraged by Gender Discrimination Caused by Algorithms

• A New Study Shows Benefits to Dispatching Mental Health Specialists in Nonviolent 911 Emergencies
• Higher Socioeconomic Status Linked to Increased Air Pollution Exposure in China

• AI Ethical Decision Making: Is Society Ready?
• A New Data-Driven Model Could Provide a Powerful Policy Planning Tool to Combat the Nation's Opioid Crisis

• Physician Mistreatment Emerges as Crisis That Can Ripple Through U.S. Health Care

• Obesity Threatens U.S. Military Readiness, Experts Say

• Affirmative Action Bans Had 'devastating Impact' On Diversity in Medical Schools, Study Finds

• Unprecedented Increase in Number of Border Wall Falls and Trauma

• Ethical Communication in the Age of Information

• Disasters Could Disrupt Care for Opioid Use Disorder in Most Vulnerable Communities

• Clinicians Grapple With Decisions in Crisis-Care Simulation

• Pandemic May Have Intensified U.S. Workplace Prejudice Against East Asian and Hispanic Colleagues

• Giving Increased During the Pandemic in Areas Hit Hardest by COVID-19

• How Would a Nuclear Winter Impact Food Production?

• Amid War and Disease, World Happiness Report Shows Bright Spot

• Preparing for When Lightning Strikes the Same Place Twice, Then Strikes Again

• Communities With Higher Levels of Racial Prejudice Have Worse Health Outcomes

• The Impacts from Using Genetic Testing to Track Down Relatives

• Impatient and Risk-Tolerant People More Often Become Criminals, Study Finds

• NFTs Offer New Method to Control Personal Health Information

• Adapt the Frequency of COVID-19 Testing Depending on Transmission Rate and Community Immunity, Study Finds

• Environment Key to Injury Recovery

• Measuring Trust in AI

• Community of Ethical Hackers Needed to Prevent AI's Looming 'crisis of Trust'

• Free Green Services Could Substantially Reduce Emissions

• The Ethics of Digital Technology in the Food Sector – the Future of Data Sharing

• New Study on COVID-19 Vaccinations in the Largest US Cities Finds Stark Inequities

• Officials Leading Hurricane Response Need ‘risk Literacy’

• Warfare, Not Climate, Is Driving Resurgent Hunger in Africa, Says Study

• Why Middle-Class Residents Want to Stay Put After Floodwaters Recede

• Big Data-Derived Tool Facilitates Closer Monitoring of Recovery from Natural Disasters

• Study Gauges Hospital Preparedness for the Next National Medical Crisis

• Report Sounds Alarm on Efficacy, Safety, Ethics of Embryo Selection With Polygenic Scores

• Evidence Against Physically Punishing Kids Is Clear, Researchers Say

• Antelope's Fate Shrouded by Social, Political Forces

• A Call for Global Oversight of Unproven Stem Cell Therapies

• Total Deaths Due to COVID-19 Underestimated by 20 Percent in U.S. Counties, Study Finds

• Racial Disparities in COVID-19 Mortality Wider Than Reported, Study Finds

• People With Disabilities Faced Pandemic Triage Biases

• Study Finds Green Spaces Linked to Lower Racial Disparity in COVID Infection Rates, Study Finds

• COVID-19 Pandemic May Have Increased Mental Health Issues Within Families

• Spanking May Affect the Brain Development of a Child

• Society Is Not Ready to Make Human Brains

• Time to Shift from 'food Security' To 'nutrition Security' To Increase Health and Well-Being

• Firms Recruit Dark Personalities for Earnings Management

• Jordan's Worsening Water Crisis a Warning for the World

• Research Foresees an End to Deregulated Competitive Public Transport

• After Old Age, Intellectual Disability Is Greatest Risk Factor for Death from COVID-19, Study Finds

• Team of Bioethicists and Scientists Suggests Revisiting 14-Day Limit on Human Embryo
• World War II and Urbanization Leave Their Mark on Finnish Genetics

• Pandemic Caused 'staggering' Economic, Human Impact in Developing Counties, Research Says
• Gap Between the 'haves' And 'have Nots' Widened by the COVID Pandemic, Study Finds

• Strategies to Improve Water Quality

• Experts Tap Into Behavioral Research to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination in the United States