International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

In our research recently published in the IJE, we found that the gap in life expectancy would be even wider today if declines in cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality had not dramatically slowed around 2010. However, around 2010, this decline stagnated. We found that, from 1999 to 2009, the gap between urban and rural counties grew.

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Environmental Health News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

PITTSBURGH — More than a year after the Pennsylvania Department of Health published three studies linking fracking to cancer and other health effects, advocates say the agency failed to keep promises to help residents living near fracking wells.

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Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Now, one of those leading the breakthrough research, Dr Emmanuelle Logette, reveals as part of the Frontier Scientists series how even at a very young age she knew she wanted to be a researcher in the fascinating world of genetics. For many years, fat was the enemy of health, before realizing that the actual ‘devil’ is probably sugar.

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This is an alert, an alarm, but I don’t think there’s a need to panic,” said Chuanwu Xi, a professor of environmental health sciences and of global public health at the University of Michigan School of Public Health who has researched the growth of Legionella bacteria.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Our October Lunch and Learn focused on building a niche beat as a freelance health care journalist. Seegert has been covering aging since about 2010. She recognized that Obamacare was emerging and there was a need for health reporters to explain the nuances. Almost anything can be an aging issue,” she said.

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Mercola

OCTOBER 29, 2024

These aren't just minor inconveniences; they're significant medical events that could have long-lasting impacts on your health. Ozempic Linked to Suicidal Ideation A comprehensive study analyzing the World Health Organization's database of adverse drug reactions uncovered more troubling findings about Ozempic. 6 While 1.7%

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

And research shows that when this happens, your health will drastically suffer. While popular, long-term use to manage allergies affects your health, as evidenced in a case report 5 published in the American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports. Antihistamines have been linked to changes in mental health as well.

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Gideon

JUNE 30, 2021

Pulmonary Tuberculosis ( TB ): Chest x-ray shows alveolar infiltration at both lungs due to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection Global Burden of the Disease The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported a 22% decrease in TB-related mortality between 2000-2015, with a gradual 1.5% decrease in the annual rate.

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Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

I must stress these are my views as a jobbing public health professional and just that. There is going to be a crisis in the next 20 years in health care delivery. We mostly ignored the recommendations of the 2 nd (Public Health) and 3 rd (social care) reports. We all live in hope. I am (very) often asked what my views are.

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Maternal Health Task Force

MARCH 18, 2024

She is currently a Fellow in the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Policy and is enrolled in the Harvard School of Public Health MPH-45 program in Health Policy with a concentration in Maternal and Child Health. By: Jodian Pinkney , Infectious Diseases Physician.

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Gideon

MARCH 31, 2021

coli (EPEC) infection is a common cause of infantile diarrhea, although it can affect people of all ages. DAEC infection is associated with diarrhea in children, where the risk of infection increases with age. 158-163, 2010. Most cases are self-limited, but it may be life-threatening in infants. It is usually self-limited.

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Mercola

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Dean Ornish, clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is perhaps best known for his pioneering work in how to use food and simple lifestyle strategies to improve health. But the important point is that most of their destructive health habits will be changed at that point. They said, 'No.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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Sheffield DPH

JANUARY 14, 2023

Public Health” in almost all guises won’t deliver results fast enough on the right now issues. In the medium to long term pretty much everybody says “public health” is “the answer” In whole or in part. Some talk about “prevention” or “public health”. Not into health. Of that there is no doubt. This was good.

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Black Health Matters

JUNE 18, 2024

Corynne Corbett ( 00:15 ): I’m Corynne Corbett, editorial director from Black Health Matters. And it’s unfortunate because I think a lot of things happen when we’re stuck, our health starts to suffer not only our physical health, but our mental health as well. So, our brain health is even.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

In 2010, I created the First Friday Ideas Salon. Recently, I became interested in the issue of how retirees whose professions defined their persona can, after age 80, as a “senior senior,” continue to be a person of substantiality. It’s difficult to find unbiased health-related articles nowadays.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2021

When he died in 2018 at age 85, his memoriam read : “For over 50 years, Dr. Slack conducted pioneering research on the use of computers in the medical world and was one of the founders of medical informatics. In 2010, Dr. Slack wrote, “Dialogue between physician and patient continues to be the mainstay of clinical medicine.”

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

For journalists who want to track trends in the quality of maternal health, a more useful gauge may be the rate of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) , which affects tens of thousands of women annually. It’s associated with both adverse maternal and infant health outcomes and higher healthcare costs. per 10,000 in 2016 to 87.2

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Better Health For All

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Domestic abuse or intimate partner violence is a global issue which has been recognised by the World Health Organisation as a major public health problem. [5] 6] According to the Femicide Census, over the decade between 2010 and 2020, 1,924 women were killed by men, an average of one woman killed every 2.7

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BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

school news SPH Plugs In: Our Favorites This Fall Members of the SPH community share recommendations for the books, films, podcasts, and other content that has resonated with them as they study, research, and practice public health. For peers who share her interest in women’s health, she recommends the documentary podcast Bodies.

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By GEORGE BEAUREGARD During my years in a bustling metropolitan primary care practice from 1992 to 2010, I recall only a handful of patients under 50 who developed cancer. Since 2010, I’ve transitioned into physician executive roles across various U.S. Many of those individuals are between the ages of 20 and 40.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Judging by other parts of the interview, ‘they’ means government health agencies, big pharma, mainstream media. million to five institutions (Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Oregon Health and Science University [OHSU]) to study vaccines and the menstrual cycle.

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The Hill

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Democrats are pessimistic that Congress will enact new rules around the health insurance industry, even as they try to appear responsive to growing calls for reform following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. health system, and insurance companies specifically. health system, and insurance companies specifically.

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Exploring Health

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Is Now a Target By Teddy Rosenbluth and Emily Anthes , New York Times The National Institute of Health (NIH) is the worlds leading public funder for biomedical research. The NIH includes 27 institutes that are focused on specific health topics. adults, age 70 and older.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Linda Duffy, 83, got sick of the games that she says UnitedHealthcare played with health care providers over negotiating contracts. In the fall, UnitedHealthcare and Duke Health ended a months-long standoff over contract negotiations just ahead of a Nov. 1 deadline. 1 deadline. The open enrollment period for Medicare ends Dec.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 11, 2024

If spending goes down significantly, at least nine states could end their Medicaid expansion initiatives, throwing millions of low- and moderate-income Americans off of their government-funded health insurance, health policy experts predict. Those cuts are designed to offset the costs of Trumps planned cuts to taxes.

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Black Health Matters

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The Affordable Care Act (ACA), or “Obamacare,” was enacted in 2010 and implemented in 2014. Its goal is to increase the quality and affordability of health insurance, expand Medicaid coverage, and decrease the number of uninsured Americans. The Biden-Harris Administration recently reported that 21.3

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