Ultraviolet (UV) light has the ability to improve immune responses and promote health, but prolonged exposure is linked to an increased risk of skin cancer.
For health care professionals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, practicing mindful self-care – even if for minutes each day – can help with avoiding burnout.
With crisis comes misinformation, warns UB digital literacy expert Heidi Julien. Use the CRAP test, she recommends, a four-step assessment that filters out info filled with bias and fiction.
In modern and historic times, health care institutions have often wrongly assumed people with disabilities have a poor quality of life, says UB researcher Michael Rembis.
The first Earth Day in 1970 was a “youthquake.” It wasn’t one event. It was at least 12,000, and most were organized by teenagers and twenty-somethings, says UB environmental historian Adam Rome.
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