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Overcoming this is going to be difficult: Suicide risk, stigma, and chronic fatigue syndrome

Suicide claims over 800,000 lives per year. Each suicide leaves behind an average of 6 suicide survivors, who often ponder what could have been done to prevent such a tragedy. Many times, conversations about preventing suicide revolve around treating people's mental health. Indeed, while conditions... click to read more

Views 10809
Reading time 4 min
published on Apr 19, 2021
Could COVID-19 decide our climate future?

In early 2020, the world suddenly fell quiet as measures were put in place to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. No more traffic jams — the clear roads and skies and cleaner air were a brief silver lining. But has the pandemic really been making an... click to read more

  • Piers M. Forster | Professor; Director of the Priestley International Centre for Climate at Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
  • Deborah Z. Rosen | Science and Policy Manager for the EU Horizon 2020 CONSTRAIN project at Priestley International Centre for Climate, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
Views 2739
Reading time 4 min
published on Mar 10, 2021
Understanding how COVID-19 Patients shed viral particles into their environment

The University of Nebraska Medical Center and Nebraska Medicine were among the first U.S. hospitals to provide care for individuals infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. When the first news of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China began appearing in December of 2019, the nursing and research... click to read more

  • Joshua L. Santarpia | Associate Professor at Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
Views 3080
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jan 4, 2021
The struggle to comply with social distancing

COVID-19 pandemic has drastically changed our lives. To curb the virus's spread, we have tried to keep a distance from our neighbors, postpone large group gatherings, and frequently isolate ourselves at home. These social (or physical) distancing practices are at odds with the interactive nature... click to read more

  • Weizhen Xie | Postdoctoral Fellow at National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, USA
  • Stephen Campbell | Research Associate at Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
  • Weiwei Zhang | Associate Professor at Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside
Views 4219
Reading time 3 min
published on Nov 24, 2020
The importance of being tested

Imagine the global threat of a potentially lethal virus, showing up in mainland China and rapidly spreading worldwide, for which no effective treatments or vaccines are available. A few months ago, this would have been nothing more than a book or a movie plot. Unfortunately, it... click to read more

  • Giulia Giordano | Assistant Professor at Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento, Trento, Italy
Views 7641
Reading time 3.5 min
published on Jul 15, 2020