July 25, 2023 – A one-year gap in access to WIC can have a significantly negative effect on the quality of some 5-year-olds’ diets. A new study from the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences found that when children age out of WIC after their fifth birthday, many families are left without food assistance support for […]
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Wildfires disproportionately affect the poor
August 2, 2022 – With fires raging from California to Alaska, the 2022 wildfire season is off to a violent start. It’s an ominous sign of what promises to be another record-breaking fire season in the U.S. Roughly 2 million acres burned last month. And major fires are currently scorching Idaho, Utah and California, threatening […]
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Contact tracing is key to suppressing COVID-19
August 17, 2021 – The emergence of the delta variant and continued vaccine hesitancy have caused many health and government officials to revisit the need for non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) like social distancing policies, mask wearing, contact tracing and isolating infected individuals to manage new COVID-19 surges. The one thing everyone wants to avoid is another lockdown, […]
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How to talk to skeptical relatives about the vaccine
February 16, 2021 – As the new COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available, health care providers are encountering a familiar obstacle: people who don’t want to take the shot. Reasons range from distrust in the pharmaceutical companies to the impression that the vaccines were developed too quickly to possibly be safe. The University of Georgia’s […]
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Strict parenting may cause adolescents to act out
October 1, 2020 – The next time you’re yelling at your defiant teen, you might consider that you may be doing more harm than good, according to new research from the University of Georgia. UGA researchers wanted to see how parents’ behavior during moments of conflict affected their children’s ability to cope with stress and problem […]
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Herd immunity an impractical strategy, study finds
September 23, 2020 – Achieving herd immunity to COVID-19 is an impractical public health strategy, according to a new model developed by University of Georgia scientists. The study recently appeared in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Controlling COVID-19 has presented public health policymakers with a conundrum: How to prevent overwhelming their health care infrastructure, […]
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Dog Days of Summer: Vet Tips for Pet Safety (video)
May 29, 2018 – For those who don’t live in the South, summertime in Georgia may bring thoughts of front porches and sweet tea. But for those who live below the Mason-Dixon Line, there is one inescapable constant each summer: the heat. The intense heat and humidity in the southeastern U.S. is hard not only […]
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Migration From Sea-Level Rise Could Reshape Cities Inland
ATHENS, GA, April 17, 2017 – When Hurricane Katrina struck Louisiana in 2005, cities inland saw an influx of evacuees escaping the storm and its aftermath. Now, a new University of Georgia study predicts that this could happen again as a result of sea-level rise. In a paper published today in Nature Climate Change, researchers […]