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Extreme Weather

Extreme Heat Causes Deaths and Strains Health Systems, Compounding Dangers. Here’s What Can Be Done.

For tens of thousands of salt workers laboring in the deserts of Gujarat – a state in India – each year, employment was already hazardous. These workers, many of them women, spend eight to ...

California Wildfires

How Do Wildfires Harm Health? New Research Is Filling in the Knowledge Gaps.

The 2022 Oak Fire spread quickly, burning more than 19,000 California acres in a few weeks amid severe drought. But for some medically vulnerable residents in Mariposa County, the harm was ...

Operational Update

Medicines for Haiti, 12 More Countries, Depart from Direct Relief

Over the past week, Direct Relief has delivered 644 shipments of requested medical aid to 47 U.S. states and territories and 13 countries worldwide. The shipments contained 6.2 million ...