Harm Reduction

The "boots on the ground" when it comes to surveillance are the state health departments that, in turn, rely on the reporting of local health departments. The CDC aggregates the information and investigates the cases.

A growing body of evidence gathered over the last 15 years has shown that using an electronic cigar

Research published in Science Advances first examined reproducibility in psychology, economics, and articles in Nature/Science.

I’ve written lately about the several thousand clinical treatments and studies our first-responding physicians tried, but a new study seeks to understand how our institutions tried to identify the signal from the noise and create guidelines.

It could be worse, though – if I were writing this in, say, November or December instead of May, then the ground would be contracting, forcing radon out of pore spaces, and radon levels would be even higher.

     

Buried deep in the December 2020 COVID relief bill was an odd provision that had nothing to do with helping Americans financially crippled by the pandemic:

The background of sepsis

The following is the essence of the controversy:

One of the lessons of the pandemic has been how where we live influences our susceptibility to disease.