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Hotels offering rooms to homeless in pandemic reap reputational reward
(University of Bath) Hotels that opened their doors to homeless people in their community during lockdown generated greater positive word-of-mouth marketing than those that offered free accommodation to frontline healthcare workers, finds new University research. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

How lead (maybe) caused the downfall of ancient Rome (video)
(American Chemical Society) Ancient Rome's emperors did some pretty bizarre stuff--bursting into uncontrollable fits of laughter, appointing a horse as a priest, dressing in animal skins and attacking people... the list goes on. Why were they acting that way? Possibly... lead poisoning. In this week's episode, we unwrap the possibility that lead caused the Roman Empire's collapse. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

A more sustainable human-nature relationship
(Lehigh University) Lehigh University engineer Y.C. Ethan Yang is part of a multidisciplinary team of researchers developing a climate risk modeling framework to improve resilience of power systems with support from an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Finding support for India during its COVID-19 surge
(Carnegie Mellon University) Ashique KhudaBukhsh of Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute led a team of researchers who used machine learning to identify supportive tweets from Pakistan during India's COVID crisis. In the throes of a public health crisis, words of hope can be welcome medicine. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news

Mark F. Bear earns RPB amblyopia research award
(Picower Institute at MIT) The RPB Walt and Lilly Disney Award for Amblyopia Research will support efforts to develop a new therapeutic approach to the common vision disorder. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - June 28, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news