When a celebrity, politician or other influential person checks in, a health care team can feel pressured to give in to a VIP’s wishes.
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A recent Pew survey showed just how deep the divide has become, with about 40% of registered voters saying that they didn’t have a single close friend supporting a different presidential candidate.
As Americans celebrate the legacy of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote, it is also a moment to acknowledge how suffragists first used hunger strike as a form of protest.
La urgencia de encontrar soluciones a la pandemia de COVID-19 aumenta la posibilidad de investigación descuidada. Pero el escrutinio y la posterior corrección muestran que la ciencia está funcionando.
Fitness information like resting heart rate collected by wearable devices can’t diagnose diseases, but it can signal when something is wrong. That can be enough to prompt a COVID-19 test.
A través de la arquitectura, el diseño y los medios, Hitler fomentó el mito de ser un hombre hogareño, culto y pacífico, para distanciar al dictador de sus políticas crueles.
When college athletes practice or play, they’re really performing work. But are they able to speak up when the work conditions threaten their health? And what happens when they do?
Mismanaged and in disrepair, many low-income housing complexes are nonetheless seen as important avatars of modern architecture. But are calls for their preservation forgetting those who matter most?
Severe scrutiny of two major papers, including one about the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine, is part of science’s normal process of self-correction.
It’s nearly impossible to avoid close contact when protesting, and easy to forget the risks. An infectious disease expert answers key questions about how to avoid spreading the coronavirus to family.
The US and Canada have had a long, supportive relationship. But the recent closure of the US-Canada border because of the coronavirus underscores a growing divide between the two countries.
It’s hard to eat while wearing a face mask, and social distancing isn’t easy in restaurants’ normally tight quarters. An infectious disease expert offers some tips on what to look for to stay safe.
A biomedical researcher and pediatrician who works with Kawasaki disease and COVID-19 explains the similarities and differences in the worrisome cases doctors are starting to see.
The movies make it seem like someday we’ll be able to make people and objects grow really big or shrink really small. Whether this will be possible comes down to the smallest of things.
Climate change is making extreme weather events, both hot and cold, more frequent across the Great Lakes region. Weatherizing low-income residents’ homes is an important way to prepare.
Since the Cold War, Americans have shifted from engaging in active self-rescue to passively waiting for help from a centralized, bureaucratic federal emergency response.
Since caffeine is in so many different foods and drinks, it’s easy for kids – or grownups – to get more than they should without realizing it.
Pope Francis recently removed a rule known as Pontifical Secrecy, which allowed clergy and church officials to withhold information regarding sexual abuse. Will it make the church truly transparent?
Apa yang membuat suatu tindakan itu ‘baik’ atau ‘jahat’? Dan adakah situasi yang bisa membenarkan orang berbohong saat wawancara kerja?
The government has tried to harness a profit-driven drug industry to serve public health before.
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Political Science, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Law, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor of Architecture, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor of English, University at Buffalo
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Associate Professor of History, University at Buffalo
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SUNY Distinguished Professor of Oral Biology, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, University at Buffalo
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Professor, Department of Communication, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environment and Sustainability, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Engineering, University at Buffalo
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Assistant Professor of Communicative Disorders and Sciences, University at Buffalo
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Professor of Computer Science and Engineering; Director, UB Media Forensic Lab, University at Buffalo
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Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo
