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The EPA established national limits for PFAS in drinking water on Wednesday, but PFAS can also been found in bandages, cosmetics, deodorants, toilet paper and menstrual products, Northeastern professor Phil Brown says.
Public health officials are warning people about the danger of remaining unvaccinated against measles as the number of cases so far this year has surpassed the caseload for 2023.
The number of incoming kindergarteners who’ve received their state-required vaccines has been dropping since the 2019-2020 school year, according to the CDC.
Cases of dengue fever, a potentially deadly mosquito-borne illness, have skyrocketed in Puerto Rico, prompting officials there to warn that the problem has reached epidemic levels.
The American Cancer Society says people under 50 were only one of three adult age groups with an increase in overall cancer incidence.
Several Northeastern experts said Alabama’s decision to consider embryos children in a wrongful death suit could have ‘downstream’ effect on IVF.
The CDC is expected to end the five-day isolation minimum for people with COVID-19, something one Northeastern said is a ‘good sign’ of how we’ve learned to manage infection.
The water tumblers are going viral now as people realize there’s a lead pellet concealed in the product’s base, but Northeastern experts say this is not the biggest concern when it comes to lead exposure.
As a scholar in Northeastern University’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Graduate Fellowship program, Susana Kalish has been thinking a lot about the civil rights leader’s legacy.
The COVID-19 winter forecast is for relatively mild illness thanks to vaccination and natural immunity, health experts at Northeastern University say.
