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Measles outbreak sickens dozens of kids in Texas

The Hill

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

percent during the 2019-2020 school year to 92.7 A nurse demonstrates how a measles vaccine is administered at the Orange County Health Department on May 6, 2019, in Orlando, Florida. Kennedy later claimed his words had nothing to do with vaccine update in Samoa or with the 2019 epidemic, the AP reported. percent in 2023-2024.

Ageing and Health

Ageing and Health Herd Immunity

Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens, 2019

Preventing Chronic Disease

MARCH 18, 2025

Foodborne Illness in the United States, 2019

FDA allows standalone use of nasal spray antidepressant Spravato (esketamine)

NPR Health

JANUARY 21, 2025

It was approved in 2019 to treat severe depression. The FDA says esketamine, an antidepressant derived from the anesthetic and party drug ketamine, can now be prescribed on its own. Image credit: tadamichi/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019

Frontiers

MARCH 15, 2022

The study shows that one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019 was due to fires, which is higher than previous estimates. The new map showed that the proportion of global forest loss due to fires between 2001 and 2019 is 26% to 29%, higher than previously estimated. Global forest fires 2001-2019 map.

PRESS RELEASE: National Council of Urban Indian Health Calls for Protection of Indian Health System Funding

National Council on Urban Indian Health

JANUARY 31, 2025

During the 2019 government shutdown, funding disruptions led to reduced services and facility closures, resulting in tragic consequences including fatal opioid overdoses in some communities. Preventing Service Disruptions: Recent funding uncertainties forced UIOs to consider staffing cuts, service suspensions, and even facility closures.

Tribal Health

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

Environmental Health News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Application of long-term fire retardants to the western United States between 2000 and 2011 (A) and 2012 and 2019 (B). From the study, " Metals in Wildfire Suppressants " However, a series of lawsuits brought by FSEEE that date back to 2004 have called into question the chemicals potential impacts on wildlife and water pollution.

Environmental Health

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it?

UK Health Security

APRIL 6, 2025

There were an estimated 66,730 serious antibiotic-resistant infections in 2023, a rise compared to 62,314 that we saw in 2019, before the pandemic. Antimicrobial resistance, known as AMR, is stopping antibiotics from being as effective as they used to be.

Antimicrobial Resistance

A trial HIV vaccine triggered elusive and essential antibodies in humans

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 17, 2024

An HIV vaccine candidate triggered low levels of an elusive type of broadly neutralizing HIV antibodies among a small group of people enrolled in a 2019 clinical trial.

Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties

KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

An outbreak among a largely unvaccinated population in Samoa in 2019 and 2020 caused 83 deaths , mainly among children, and more than 5,700 cases. Some children from Gaines were hospitalized in that county. The disease can cause severe complications, and about one of every thousand children with measles die.

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Clinical trials of medicines often done in poor countries: Supreme Court

The Hindu

JANUARY 8, 2025

Bhatti considered the submissions of Centre's Additional Solicitor General Archana Pathak Dave who said rules for new drugs and clinical trials were framed in 2019 A Bench comprising Justices Hrishikesh Roy and S.V.N

COVID-19 pandemic led to significant decline in cardiac arrest survival rates

News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates dropped significantly at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and have continued to remain lower than in the pre-pandemic years of 2015-2019, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2024.

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it?

UK Health Security

APRIL 6, 2025

There were an estimated 66,730 serious antibiotic-resistant infections in 2023, a rise compared to 62,314 that we saw in 2019, before the pandemic. Antimicrobial resistance, known as AMR, is stopping antibiotics from being as effective as they used to be.

Antimicrobial Resistance

RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back

The Hill

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Previous studies, such as a 2019 study published in the Pediatrics medical journal by the American Academy of Pediatrics, found that 70 percent of U.S. counties had no child psychiatrists between 2006 and 2017 despite a broader increase in the profession during that time frame.

Environmental Health and Safety

Environmental Health and Safety Ageing and Health Mental Health Services

The state of Florida's work comp

Managed Care Matters

MARCH 4, 2025

Lost time claim count was down more than 10% from 2019 to 2023 (pre-COVID to post-COVID) over 60% of medical cost for LT claims was for facilities. line items per bill Opioid scripts dropped 62% from 2019 to 2023 - good news indeed ! million bills were reported That’s an average of $243 per bill and 2.4

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A new study provides a list of the wildlife species present at the market from which SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, most likely arose in late 2019. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomic data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Why petting your cat leads to static electricity

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

In 2019, researchers discovered nanosized surface deformations at play. Static electricity was first observed in 600 B.C., but researchers have struggled to explain how rubbing causes it. The same researchers now say different electrical charges build up on the front and back parts of a sliding object, creating a current.

CSTE Hill Day 2024

CSTE

APRIL 26, 2024

Being back on the Hill in person for the first time since 2019 was exciting and presented an important opportunity to advocate for a future in which CSTE members and all public health officials have the resources needed to respond swiftly and effectively to public health threats. for our annual Capitol Hill Day.

How falling measles vaccination rates put millions of children at risk

News Medical Health Sciences

MARCH 10, 2025

globally since 2019, leaving most WHO regions off track to meet Immunization Agenda 2030 targets. Two-dose measles vaccination coverage has fallen by 3.7% The study highlights a worrying rise in zero-dose children, especially in Africa, threatening global herd immunity against measles.

Herd Immunity

Australia sees a decline in type 2 diabetes, but disparities persist

News Medical Health Sciences

JANUARY 13, 2025

Type 2 diabetes incidence in Australia decreased from 2010 to 2019 overall but rose among younger men and specific ethnic groups, highlighting persistent disparities.

Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western U.S., likely due to drought and fire

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 11, 2024

The paper analyzed trends in carbon storage across the American West from 2005 to 2019. But a new study confirms widespread doubts about the potential for most forests in the Western US to help curb climate change.

Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 18, 2024

In late 2019 the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 suddenly started shining brighter than ever before. To understand why, astronomers have used data from several space and ground-based observatories, including the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), to track how the galaxy's brightness has varied.

Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200%-300%, shows new study

Frontiers

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Deforestation fires in Brazil and Indonesia accounted for 3% and 7%, respectively, of the planet’s total greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in 2019 and 2020, finds a new study in Frontiers in Climate. In Brazil, a total of 11,088 km 2 of forest were destroyed from August 2019 to July 2020. gigatons CO2e in 2019 and 1.89

Media and Health Communication

Rising lung cancers a cause for concern

The Hindu

DECEMBER 5, 2024

According to the Tamil Nadu Cancer Registry Project report, 2019, Cancer Institute, one in 105 persons (0 to 74 years) in Chennai are at risk of lung cancer. Coimbatore (6.5), Tiruvallur (6.4) and Kancheepuram (6.1) are among the top five districts with the highest lung cancer incidence rate after Chennai and Kanniyakumari

Melting of Alaskan glaciers accelerating faster than previously thought

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 2, 2024

In particular, they found that icefield-wide, rates of glacier area shrinkage were five times faster from 2015-2019 relative to 1948-1979. The team looked at records going back to 1770 and identified three distinct periods in how icefield volume changed.

Unraveling the psychological impact of COVID-19 on young minds

News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic, which began in late 2019, brought immense disruption to individuals and societies worldwide, including children and adolescents. Alongside its immediate physical health impacts, the pandemic had a profound effect on mental health.

The urgent need to train doctors, nurses in palliative care: the Kerala story

The Hindu

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Despite the States 2019 policy on palliative care that envisages bringing together all facilities on a single platform, palliative care remains elusive to patients in tertiary-care hospitals due to a lack of trained professionals

A Year After: Has Blockchain Changed Advertising by 2022?

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

In 2018-2019, budding blockchain-based advertising projects provided the first opportunity to buy clean and secure traffic, enriched with genuine data about ad campaign performance. In 2019, this environment evolved, multiplying the number of blockchain marketing startups from 22 (2017) to 290 (2019) , which is more than 13 times in a year.

Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Dr. Vazquez served as the chief scientific officer of MDPI from 2015 to 2016 and again from 2019 to 2021, and as the chief executive officer from 2016 to 2019. Franck Vazquez, Frontiers’ head of partnerships.

Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on

The Hindu

JANUARY 8, 2025

Around 777 million Covid cases and more than seven million deaths have been officially recorded since the first infections emerged in December 2019, according to WHO.

Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

Frontiers

MAY 18, 2022

Researchers investigated the effects of high air temperature and drought on the breeding success of southern yellow-billed hornbills in the Kalahari Desert between 2008 and 2019. The results showed that breeding output collapsed during the monitoring period (2008-2019) due to the increased maximum air temperature. Population collapse.

How well is the public protected from bad doctors? A new analysis unveils alarming results

Association of Health Care Journalists

OCTOBER 18, 2024

in during a comparison period of 2019-2021. No board reached a leading 2017-2019 rate of 2.29, set by Kentucky. during 2019-2021. Graphic by Kevin Ridder A national dip in disciplinary actions Discouragingly, the national rate of serious disciplinary actions per 1,000 licensees dropped 12% to 0.81 during 2021-2023, from 0.92

Forests endure as carbon sink despite regional pressures

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JULY 17, 2024

billion metric tons of carbon per year, which is nearly half of the carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels between 1990 and 2019. The study, based on long-term ground measurements combined with remote sensing data, found that forests take up an average of 3.5

Planetary Health Diet associated with lower risk of premature death, lower environmental impact

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

JUNE 10, 2024

This large study directly evaluates the impacts of adherence to recommendations in the landmark 2019 EAT-Lancet report. People who eat a healthy, sustainable diet may substantially lower their risk of premature death in addition to their environmental impact, according to a new study.

Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2019–2023

Preventing Chronic Disease

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 20192023

Medicaid expansion debate will affect other health policy issues before Montana legislature

News Medical Health Sciences

JANUARY 8, 2025

A last-minute change to a 2019 bill put an end date on Montana's Medicaid expansion program, setting the stage for what is anticipated to be the most significant health care debate of the 2025 Montana Legislature.

Health Policy

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Managed Care Matters

MARCH 24, 2025

Injury and illness rates Dropped 14% from 2019 to 2023… injuries with time away from work were down near 17%. Employment From the DoL - Unemployment rates were higher in January than a year earlier in 290 of the 387 metropolitan areas, lower in 64 areas, and unchanged in 33 areas, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today.

Study highlights increase in VZV-induced CNS infections and dementia risk

News Medical Health Sciences

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Researchers from Fujita Health University, Japan, observed a rise in adult central nervous system (CNS) infections, primarily aseptic meningitis caused by the varicella zoster virus (VZV), post-2019. The researchers highlighted the potential of zoster vaccination to reduce CNS infections.

What time is it? Time for Enumeration 2024, of course.

JPHMP Direct

AUGUST 29, 2024

The latest count of the public health workforce, Enumeration 2024, shows an increased state and local workforce since 2019, though much of the growth has been in temporary or contract staff. The post What time is it? Time for Enumeration 2024, of course. first appeared on JPHMP Direct.

Astrophysicists capture astonishing images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The galaxy M87, located in the Virgo constellation, provided the first-ever photo of a black hole in 2019, when the Event Horizon Telescope captured an image of the supermassive black hole at the galaxy's center.

Without Federal Action, States Wrestle With Kratom Regulation

KFF Health News

MARCH 17, 2025

” Grundmann, who supported a similar version of legislation in Arizona in 2019, said Montana’s bill is a starting point for regulation. . “What we have seen in recent years is even stronger extracts that focus specifically on mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. These should not be seen as kratom’ any longer.”

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The JISC UK National Open Access Agreement with Frontiers – Two Years in.

Frontiers

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In 2019, Frontiers signed a three year national open access agreement in the UK with JISC Collections. Agreement details for Frontiers Open Access publishing UK framework agreement 2019-2022 available here.). There is still time to sign-up to the agreement via the JISC website here.

U.S. overdose deaths far outpace other countries: Report

The Hill

JANUARY 9, 2025

But those deaths began to rise again in 2019 and shot up during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The United States has the highest rate of drug overdose deaths out of 30 countries, according to a new report from the health nonprofit the Commonwealth Fund.

8 Ways Machine Learning Can be Used to Make Cities Smarter

Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

2019) in their article ‘A Novel Air Quality Early-Warning System Based on Artificial Intelligence’ is based on an air pollution prediction model as well as an air quality evaluation model. Yang, Machine learning and artificial intelligence to aid climate change research and preparedness (2019), IOPScience. [3]

Occupational Health and Safety

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2021 – Open Science Is Saving Lives

Frontiers

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Annually, cancer kills 10 million people; only 28% of research published between 2015 and 2019 is openly accessible. Figures for climate research show that of the approximately 160K papers published between 2015 and 2019, just 29% were accessible to researchers, industry, and members of the public.

Measles outbreak sickens dozens of kids in Texas

Foodborne Illness Acquired in the United States—Major Pathogens, 2019

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FDA allows standalone use of nasal spray antidepressant Spravato (esketamine)

New high-resolution map shows fires caused one third of global forest loss between 2001 and 2019

PRESS RELEASE: National Council of Urban Indian Health Calls for Protection of Indian Health System Funding

New evidence links heavy metal pollution with wildfire retardants

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it?

A trial HIV vaccine triggered elusive and essential antibodies in humans

Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties

Clinical trials of medicines often done in poor countries: Supreme Court

COVID-19 pandemic led to significant decline in cardiac arrest survival rates

What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and how can you help combat it?

RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back

The state of Florida's work comp

Genetic tracing at the Huanan Seafood market further supports COVID animal origins

Why petting your cat leads to static electricity

CSTE Hill Day 2024

How falling measles vaccination rates put millions of children at risk

Australia sees a decline in type 2 diabetes, but disparities persist

Forest carbon storage has declined across much of the Western U.S., likely due to drought and fire

Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time

Greenhouse gas emission impact from peatland fires underestimated by 200%-300%, shows new study

Rising lung cancers a cause for concern

Melting of Alaskan glaciers accelerating faster than previously thought

Unraveling the psychological impact of COVID-19 on young minds

The urgent need to train doctors, nurses in palliative care: the Kerala story

A Year After: Has Blockchain Changed Advertising by 2022?

Former MDPI CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez joins Frontiers

Forgotten but not gone: Covid keeps killing, five years on

Climate crisis is driving cousins of The Lion King character to local extinction

How well is the public protected from bad doctors? A new analysis unveils alarming results

Forests endure as carbon sink despite regional pressures

Planetary Health Diet associated with lower risk of premature death, lower environmental impact

Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2019–2023

Medicaid expansion debate will affect other health policy issues before Montana legislature

Quick hits

Study highlights increase in VZV-induced CNS infections and dementia risk

What time is it? Time for Enumeration 2024, of course.

Astrophysicists capture astonishing images of gamma-ray flare from supermassive black hole M87

Without Federal Action, States Wrestle With Kratom Regulation

The JISC UK National Open Access Agreement with Frontiers – Two Years in.

U.S. overdose deaths far outpace other countries: Report

8 Ways Machine Learning Can be Used to Make Cities Smarter

2021 – Open Science Is Saving Lives

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