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The review, summarized in the CDC Moving Forward Summary Report, is just the beginning of their institutional soul-searching.

The role of the CDC in categorizing opioid drugs

Join our directors of bio-sciences, chemistry, and medicine Cameron English, Dr. Josh Bloom, and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 23 of the Science Dispatch podcast.

More good news from the world of public health: teen vaping continues its steady decline, according to the latest results from the CDC's National Youth Tobacco

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If the media tells you a group of chemicals is dangerous, be skeptical. The compounds in question may indeed be harmful, but there's a good chance they're reasonably safe and make our lives better.

As an undergraduate and grad student, I cut my research teeth working on bacteria. I found their resilience to be amazing; they’ll do anything to survive.

Sometimes it feels as if it’s March 2020 again.

'German Lopez is one of journalism’s clearest writers on a remarkable array of topics, including the opioid epidemic, crime, gun control, taxes, the economy, Congress and Covid.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, many commentators have identified the elderly as the group most vulnerable to COVID-19.