Rocky and Ren Hazelman run a chicken farm in West Milford, NJ, about 10 miles south from the Jennings Creek wildfire along the state’s border with New York Their 2,000 chickens require about 150 gallons of water daily, and the couple usually has no trouble...
For decades, public health systems in many parts of the world have been under-equipped In response, government and partner organizations are working to ensure integrated and adaptive systems, and to expand the skilled workforce to meet growing demands Universities have...
For the first time, scientists have tracked the dispersion of the Oropouche virus in the Brazilian Amazon region, an important first step to control future outbreaks of a disease with more than 100,000 reported cases since the 1960s The researchers followed a new...
Residents of Southside, a historically Black community that lies along Six Mile Creek in Ithaca, now live in an area recently recategorized as a “special hazard flood zone” by the Federal Emergency Management Agency “When we get weeks of rain, people’s...
Cayuga Health is proud to announce the upcoming launch of its Center for Health Equity Transformation on October 1, 2024 The health system is on a mission to improve health equity in all of the communities it serves in the Southern Tier of New York State The Center...
Medicaid and health systems are playing a growing role in providing housing and other services to people experiencing homelessness, investments that could bolster – or eventually overtake – existing governance structures, new Cornell research finds As of August...
Faculty and staff within Cornell’s Department of Public & Ecosystem Health have been funded by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Center for State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce to help...
Fruit bats generate more diverse antibodies than mice, but overall have a weaker antibody response, according to a new study published September 24th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Dan Crowley from Cornell University, USA, and...
The College of Veterinary Medicine and NY FarmNet, in partnership with Rural Minds, has launched a free online course, “Mental Health and Suicide Prevention in Rural America,” designed to give learners practical support strategies and resources to navigate mental...
Better surveillance of marine mammals that wash up on beaches and in marshes will provide more accurate estimates of how many individuals of many species are dying and the causes of those deaths, according to a new study published Sept 4 in Marine Mammal Science In...
Be first, be right, be credible That’s the crisis communication mantra for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention But it’s hard to save lives with the right message when you’re competing with a flood of misinformation and noise To help local health...
