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As Hantavirus Spreads, Climate and Health Research Faces a Funding Crisis 

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In most years, Talya Shragai can devote a few concentrated weeks to securing federal funding that supports a full year of research for Stanford’s Disease Ecology in a Changing World (DECO) program. But as recent federal decisions have snatched funding away from climate and health research, she has spent this year as DECO’s Research and Program Manager chasing nearly a dozen […]

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As parents clamor for a treatment touted for autism, doctors hesitate to prescribe it

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After leucovorin got public attention as a potential autism treatment, families rushed to get it. Many doctors are torn about prescribing an unproven drug but don’t want to lose patients’ trust. Michal Ruprecht, a Stanford Global Health Media Fellow, reports for NPR. Read the full story here.

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Oakland environmentalists plan last-resort protests against coal terminal

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After the construction of a West Oakland coal terminal was approved by the California Supreme Court in September, members of environmental group 350 East Bay Area have renewed a decade-long movement to keep potentially carcinogenic coal out of the Bay.  Many anti-coal advocates were disappointed this fall, after the Court decided not to review a

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Palo Alto City Council hears calls for increased gas safety education, questions language use in community survey 

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PALO ALTO – Students and community members urged the Palo Alto City Council to educate the public about the health risks of gas stoves.  “We’re feeding chemicals into people’s homes that injure kids’ lungs. We need to educate the public who don’t know this to let them have a choice,” chemical engineer and resident Sven Thesen said at the council

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Palo Alto City Council votes yes on synthetic turf at El Camino Field

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PALO ALTO – The Palo Alto City Council moved to replace existing synthetic turf at El Camino Park with cork turf at its Jan. 12 meeting, rejecting the recommendations of county health authorities who recommended that the city install grass. In a presentation to the council, Division Manager of Open Space, Parks and Golf Sarah

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