The Antiscience Supreme Court Is Hurting the Health of Americans

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May 17, 2022

Policy The Antiscience Supreme Court Is Hurting the Health of Americans Justice Alito's leaked opinion signaling an end to Roe is the latest in a broad trend of rejecting science and expertise By Wendy E. Parmet

Climate Change 'Reef Balls' Gain Traction for Shoreline Protection Structures first deployed as artificial reefs are being used in the Northeast to combat the force of waves as ocean levels rise By Daniel Cusick,E&E News

Public Health The Urgent Need to Improve Health Equity A special package highlights problems and solutions By Lauren Gravitz

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Reproduction How Medication Abortion with RU-486/Mifepristone Works A step-by-step look at how these drugs end pregnancy By Megha Satyanarayana

Inequality Discrimination Is Breaking People's Hearts Heart attacks, strokes and other consequences of cardiovascular disease are particularly dangerous for people who face inequity By Jyoti Madhusoodanan

Neuroscience How the Brain Tells Apart Important and Unimportant Sensations Several recent studies point to a small, long-overlooked structure in the brain stem as a crucial gatekeeper for the body's signals By Eiman Azim,Sliman Bensmaia,Lee E. Miller,Chris Versteeg

Pollution Living with Lead Creates Antibiotic-Resistant 'Superbugs' People are infected by bacteria that, after contacting heavy metals, develop drug-resistant traits By Allison Parshall

Public Health How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30 Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Tulika Bose | 08:18

Health Care Gun Violence Is an Epidemic; Health Systems Must Step Up There are tools that hospitals can use to reduce the number of firearm injuries that come through the doors. We are piloting one such project By Michael Dowling,Chethan Sathya

Medicine Science Still Doesn't Understand How Our Sex Affects Our Health Our X and Y chromosomes represent the biggest genetic difference in our species. Medicine routinely ignores their influence. Why? By Meghan McDonough

Natural Disasters Climate Change Doubled the Likelihood of Devastating South African Floods Hundreds of people were killed and thousands of homes destroyed in Durban after torrential rains unleashed flooding By Chelsea Harvey,E&E News

FROM THE ARCHIVE The Supreme Court's Assault on Science A recent decision that makes it easier to sentence children to life without parole ignores what we know about the prefrontal cortex By Daniel Weinberger | May 2021

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