public health
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Professor Isabel Oliver, chief medical officer for Wales, said air pollution was a serious public health issue that contributed to a range of conditions including heart and lung disease.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
In the past, courts have supplied this important backstop in other widespread policy challenges, such as the public health threats of tobacco use and the opioid epidemic, that lacked adequate legislative or regulatory responses.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
More recently, in Moss Landing, Calif., where a 2025 lithium-ion battery-plant fire flared up this month, residents criticized CTEH’s air-monitoring findings last year of no hazardous levels of chemicals or threat to public health.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
In perhaps the highest-profile contest, former public health official Abdul El-Sayed is facing Republican Mike Rogers for the seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Gary Peters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
At the Harvard School of Public Health, Farmer had gotten used to hearing that public health problems should be solved with “appropriate technology.”
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
