Exposing Hidden Threats to Human Health
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The Burden of Caution
History’s deadliest exposures were once considered acceptable risks.
There is a peculiar dialect in epidemiology. Once you notice it, you can’t unhear it. “These findings suggest that exposure to X may possibly increase the risk of Y.” Sug...
Blaming the Sick
Why do we first search for fault in people, and only later in the conditions we have made around them?
When a child grows obese, diabetic, anxious, or short of breath, why do we ask what was chosen before we ask what was given?
We study...
Fingerprints of Cancer
We’ve gotten very good at reading the aftermath of disease. The harder—and more important—task is learning to read its origins.
At first glance, epigenetics feels like a revolution. We can estimate biological age, detect cancer from a vial...
The Quiet Work of Tending
We’ve built a system that excels at diagnosing and treating disease—and struggles to see what causes it. Our tools have become sharper, faster, more precise. We can detect illness earlier than ever. But most of what we measure still comes a...
The Invisible Made Visible
Measuring a Nation, One Person at a Time
It doesn’t look like a laboratory.
The trailer is parked in a school lot, its steps worn from years of use. Inside, the air is cool and clinical. A nurse draws blood while another technician c...
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Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, is a preventive medicine physician and professor at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. He studies how toxic chemicals impact human health. His research showed that no level of lead is safe.
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