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Health-Informed Computing: Estimating and Addressing the Public Health Impact of Data Centers
Announce Type: replace Abstract: The surging demand for artificial intelligence (AI) has led to a rapid expansion of energy-intensive data centers, contributing to criteria air pollutant emissions and raising public health concerns that have received comparatively limited attention in sustainability assessments. This paper introduces a principled methodology to model air pollutant emissions for data centers and estimate the public health impacts. Our findings reveal that the growing demand...
'A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks
'A disease anywhere can be a disease everywhere tomorrow morning': Public health expert on Ebola and the threat of future outbreaks Live Science spoke with Dr. Ali S. Khan, an epidemiologist and former assistant surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service, about the ongoing Ebola epidemic and the U.S.'s preparedness for future outbreaks. A deadly Ebola disease epidemic is rapidly unfolding in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda. In May, the World Health Organization...
Weakened public health powers raise outbreak risks
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'Invisible' nicotine grips young people and raises alarm among public health experts
After the WHO warned that nicotine pouches may be addictive and harm brain development, their use is rising in Portugal amid legal limbo, while officials and experts debate regulation of a booming market. Small, discreet and smokeless. Nicotine pouches are gaining ground in Portugal, even before a full legal framework exists for their sale and advertising.
Rammya Mathew: The sleep fairy scandal is a wake-up call for public health
The BBC's investigation into unregulated “sleep fairies” - self-described experts dispensing dangerous advice to exhausted parents - has rightly prompted outrage.1 Wes Streeting, then health secretary, called the revelations “dangerous misinformation dressed up as expert advice.” Calls for tighter regulation are welcome and necessary. But focusing solely on the charlatans misses a harder question: why are so many parents turning to them in the first place?I've been there myself: sleep...
WHO declares an Ebola public health emergency in the DRC
Nearly ninety deaths have been recorded so far in the Democratic Republic of Congo with medical experts warning that the current strain of the Ebola virus has a very high mortality rate. The DRC's health minister said that no vaccine or specific treatment was available. Also, more than fifty children between the ages of two and five are abducted in northeast Nigeria during attacks on three schools in the same town.
The Return of Blaming and Shaming in Public Health
For years, medicine has tried to eliminate stigma. Now, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is bringing back the language personal responsibility.
The Return of Blaming and Shaming in Public Health
For years, medicine has tried to eliminate stigma. Now, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is bringing back the language personal responsibility.
Ebola can be stopped — but only if world leaders prioritize public health
Nature, Published online: 29 May 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01630-5The deadly disease was identified half a century ago in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is unacceptable that it continues to take lives.
Where’s Trump? President goes full week without a public event amid health questions and tumbling polls
President goes almost full week without a public event amid health questions and tumbling polls Republican and MAGA standard-bearer is increasingly isolated as the possibility of a midterm defeat for his party looms - Bookmark - CommentsGo to comments With five months remaining until the midterm elections that could decide the fate of his final two years in office, Donald Trump is spending more of his time holed up behind closed doors, engaging in safe interviews with friendly allies and...