With the World Health Organization grappling with the health risks associated with artificial sweeteners — specifically linking them to cancer in a new report Florida State University Professor Pradeep Bhide is available to provide expert comment to reporters working on this story.
Randy Cerveny, the keeper of the world’s records of weather for the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and a President’s Professor in ASU’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning shares insights about trends of extreme heat, the consequences of record-breaking temperatures and what the future may look like if current trends aren’t stalled or reversed.
On July 6, 2023, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted full approval to lecanemab, marketed as Leqembi, for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. The University of Kentucky’s Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has been working with this drug and others like it for more than a decade.
John Beier, an expert in vector biology and control at the Miller School of Medicine, answers questions about climate change’s impact on mosquitoes and on the locally transmitted cases of malaria in Florida.
Threads, the newest venture from Meta, has become Twitter’s biggest rival in less than a week, registering 100 million users within five days. “Threads has often been discussed as the app that could kill Twitter,” said Virginia Tech multimedia journalism expert Mike Horning.
The following experts from American University have availability and can discuss the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision for higher education and society at large.
As the summer migrant labor season is in full swing in the U.S., health inequities and other social disparities that affect these communities become more visible. Over 3 million people in the U.S. work temporarily or seasonally in farm fields, orchards, canneries, plant nurseries, fish/seafood/meat packing plants, and more.
Jadrian Wooten, a Virginia Tech professor of economics, answers questions about the circumstances that led to the impasse in labor negotiations between UPS and the Teamsters and what the effects could be should UPS workers strike.
Hackensack Meridian Health Physicians react to FDA approval of Alzheimer's drug lecanemab/ Leqembi. Available to discuss its uses, side effects and instances when they have prescribed it.
The federal government has announced historic high-speed internet infrastructure funding through the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment program, or BEAD.
Interventional cardiologists at Hackensack University Medical Center are the first in the state to employ a novel method to assess the health of smaller arteries in the heart and pinpoint microvascular disease, which until now has presented a diagnostic challenge.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions is likely to encourage more lawsuits against other race-conscious policies, including in employment, says an employment law expert at Washington University in St. Louis.“A majority of the court has clearly expressed a general antipathy to explicitly race-based policies that are intended to improve equity,” said Pauline Kim, the Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law.
Newswise offers a roundup of the latest expert commentary on the recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court.
While Loyola Medicine does not condone unsanctioned displays, if people participate, there are a number of safety precautions that can reduce or prevent injuries.
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