EnviroMentalog

A study released last week from the CDC finds that the annual medical costs of obesity now reach $147 billion!!! Not only do these costs represent over 9 percent of total US medical costs, but this share has been rapidly increasing. The study shows that obese people, on average, spent 42 percent more for medical [...]

The NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has launched the Environmental Public Health Tracking Portal, giving the public user-friendly and transparent tools to explore the exposure and health outcome data that describe us (with no unique identifiers, of course). A 2001 report from the Pew Environmental Health Commission identified the lack of a linked, [...]