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Heat Waves in Hospitals – When Climate Change Threatens Patient & Worker Safety

The 2026 summer in Paris was the hottest on record – so hot that it killed thousands of people. Across Europe, 50,000 people died in cities because of the heat, according to researchers at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. For 52 days straight temperatures were intense, sending people […]

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Maggie Fox is a journalist with more than 40 years experience reporting from around the world. She’s worked for Reuters, CNN, NBC, ABC, and various newspapers, reporting from Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and, for the past 25 years, on medicine, science, and global health from Washington, DC.

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