People who suffer from chronic pain at age 44 are more like to report pain, poor general health, poor mental health outcomes and joblessness in their 50s and 60s, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by David Blanchflower of Dartmouth College, US, and Alex Bryson of University College London, UK.
It’s a very hard time to be a farmworker. Across the nation, these essential workers have faced an increased risk of COVID-19 infection and mortality. In California, farmworkers have been among the most impacted—2021 research found that they were four times more likely to test positive than the general population.
Merely wearing a mask may not be enough to prevent the spread of COVID-19 without social distancing. In Physics of Fluids, researchers tested how five different types of mask materials impacted the spread of droplets that carry the coronavirus after coughing or sneezing. Every material tested dramatically reduced the number of droplets that were spread. However, […]
