North America

Abortion access is of utmost importance to community health. It is important to elicit data to support medical education in this topic.
This article supports SDGs 11, 6, and 13 by analyzing the impact of Denver Water's annual energy use and water use alongside local precipitation over a 20-year period from 1995 to 2014 and highlighting the implications for altered energy footprints as water utilities respond to new precipitation patterns in a changing climate.
This Article supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16 by assessing changes in stillbirth rates overall and for Black and White women, finding that there was a substantial racial disparity and suggesting that targeted health and social policies are needed to address this issue.
This is a really interesting paper of the risks that Northwest Atlantic poses on the leatherback turtle, such as plastic bags and rope.
Chen and Holtzman review the emerging roles of both innate and adaptive immunity, their alterations, their interplay, and their contributions to the development and progression of Alzheimer’s disease. They proposed that targeting dysregulated innate and adaptive immune responses in both brain parenchyma and border structures could lead to important therapeutics for preventing and treating the disease.
Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 17, January 2023, 100408

This viewpoint supports SDGs 3, 5, 10 and 16, focusing on the drivers of Black maternal mortality and advocating the collection of disaggregated data to support improvements in Black maternal health.
This Article supports SDG 3 by characterizing unmet needs and experiences of caregivers of patients with Erdheim-Chester disease and other histiocytic neoplasms and identifies factors associated with finding benefit and meaning-making in providing care for patients with rare cancers.
This Article supports SDGs 3, 5 and 10, summarizing a discussion on workplace flexibility held by the AAWR at the RSNA 2021 Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, and highlighting the positive impact various aspects of flexible work arrangements have on women.
The criminalization of women’s healthcare in many USA states has created uncertainty about women’s access to evidence-based medical care and will affect the physical, mental, and emotional health and well-being of women. This article is intended to start a discussion on this complex topic in the immunology community.
Elsevier,

Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, Volume 77, November 2022

This article highlights how urban forest management in the US helps achieve environmental justice, showing the contribution of urban forests to SDG10: reduced inequalities.

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