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That COVID-19 has been difficult on gender minorities has been well-documented. Through a combination of abandonment by the state, reluctance towards women’s health beyond their reproductive capacity, and an epistemological gap at the heart of modern medicine, it is ensured that the effects of vaccines on women’s menstrual cycles remain ignored.

Arijit Nandi and colleagues evaluate maternal health services utilization, stillbirth, and neonatal and infant survival following implementation of the Maternal Health Voucher Scheme in Bangladesh.

Scientists and policymakers have become interested in the viability of solar geoengineering as a way to manipulate the Earth’s temperature in the face of unabated global warming. This paper reports the results from a survey experiment designed to test predictions about the effects of exposure to framed messages about basic scientific research on solar geoengineering. Our findings reinforce other survey research showing that solar geoengineering is a generally unfamiliar concept, but also show ...

In a cohort study, Doris K. Nyamwaya, Mark Otiende, and colleagues investigate the incidence of chikungunya virus infection-associated neurological illness among children younger than 16 years of age in Kilifi County, Kenya, between 2014-2018.

In a cohort study, Doris K. Nyamwaya, Mark Otiende, and colleagues investigate the incidence of chikungunya virus infection-associated neurological illness among children younger than 16 years of age in Kilifi County, Kenya, between 2014-2018.

Food security and livelihoods among smallholder farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are often constrained by limited farm resource endowment. It can be difficult to improve resource endowment given barriers such as low land availability and the unaffordability of agricultural inputs, so here we ask whether farmers can gain a better return on their resources through optimising their farm strategy in terms of the composition and/or diversity of crop and livestock species raised. Our survey of 1133 small...

The US government’s classification of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) Americans as White means there is no direct way to numerically count members of this group in official statistics. Therefore, any potential disparities and inequalities faced by MENA Americans remain hidden. Nevertheless, we find that MENA Americans may not be perceived, nor perceive themselves, to be White. These findings underscore the minoritized status of MENA Americans and support the inclusion of a new MENA ide...

The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars — but how did those stars form? In a paper appearing Wednesday in Nature, astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA) and the Space...

Leah Hustak (STScI) Cambridge, MA — The Earth sits in a 1,000-light-year-wide void surrounded by thousands of young stars – but how did those stars

Epidemiology expert and PHFI Director Dr GVS Murthy notes that unless 60 to 70% of the population which is eligible is not vaccinated.