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In 2018, Columbia Mailman School Professor Peter Muennig published a research study on the benefits of capping the Cross Bronx Expressway to reduce air pollution and create green space. Last week, Bronx Congressman Richie Torres hosted a press conference on a sidewalk across from the highway, to make a case for fixing the Cross Bronx Expressway using a.
Diet and Cancer: Part III By Alfred I. Neugut | April 22, 2021
We previously discussed the wide discrepancy in cancer rates between the U.S. and Japan, and considered that the differences in dietary fat intake might be responsible in part for it.
If we go back to the 1970s when these hypotheses were being formulated and discussed, the average U.S. intake of fat was 40% of calories. In Japan, the average intake of fat was close to 20%, a huge difference. Indeed, it is likely that this low fat intake was responsible in part for the reduced height of the Japanese relative to their Western counterparts when Japanese migrated to the West, not only did they acquire the cancer rates of the West, they also increased in height.
Despite global efforts, allocation and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines are not equitable
Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine access for refugee and displaced populations, and addressing health inequities, is vital for an effective pandemic response.
Yet, vaccine allocation and distribution has been neither equitable nor inclusive, despite that global leaders have stressed this as a critical aspect to globally overcoming the pandemic, according to a paper published by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Read Leave No-one Behind: Ensuring Access to COVID-19 vaccines for Refugee and Displaced Populations in the journal
Nature Medicine.
As of April 1st, high and upper-middle-income countries received 86 percent of the vaccine doses delivered worldwide, while only 0.1 percent of doses have been delivered in low-income countries. Worldwide, over 80 percent of refugees and nearly all internally displaced persons are hosted by low and middle-income countries - nations at the
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