SCOTUS Decisions and Public Health
Bloomberg School experts unpack several recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions and what they mean for the future of abortion access and gun violence reduction.
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Violence Prevention Researchers Release Toolkit Aimed at Establishing Violence Reduction Councils in Local Communities to Save Lives
Violence reduction councils bring community groups together to prevent violence, meet unique needs of community.
Extreme Heat Hazards
Increasingly frequent extreme heat days are putting more people’s health at risk.
The Problem with Pulse Oximeters: A Long History of Racial Bias
How did a racially biased medical device become the standard of care—and what’s being done to fix it?
Important Abortion Cases in a Holding Pattern Following SCOTUS Decisions
The court upholds the status quo for now, but reproductive law experts expect mifepristone and EMTALA to be litigated again in the future.
Supreme Court Upholds Domestic Violence Gun Ban: Implications for the Second Amendment and Survivors of Domestic Violence
The Supreme Court upheld a federal statute prohibiting individuals subject to domestic violence protective orders from possessing firearms.
Abortion Bans and Infant Deaths
The year after Texas passed its restrictive abortion law, infant deaths in the state increased.
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