Public Health Blog

MAY 13, 2025

Last week I talked about “Leadership Skills Every Public Health Professional Should Develop” and mentioned two episodes from 2020 where I sat down with two amazing guests to discuss leadership.This week, I wanted to make sure you had a chance to listen to one of these episodes – with Dr. Nadia Akseet.——–In

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Frontiers

AUGUST 8, 2022

By collecting and analyzing environmental samples from the water, seafloor, and surrounding shorelines in numerous response studies, they followed the persistence and chemical transformations that occurred in the following months and years, up through 2020. Selling the articles is not allowed.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, California experienced fire activity unlike anything recorded in the modern record. When the smoke cleared, the amount of burned forest totaled ten times more than the annual average going back to the late 1800s. We know that wildlife in western forests evolved with changing habitat and disturbances like wildfire.

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NPR Health

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The nonprofit Children's Health Defense that Kennedy led has filed nearly 30 federal and state lawsuits since 2020, many challenging vaccines and public health mandates. Image credit: Chip Somodevilla)

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

MAY 5, 2025

In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated.

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Preventing Chronic Disease

JANUARY 20, 2025

Outbreaks of Unknown Cause Identified by OSINT

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Preventing Chronic Disease

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Transboundary Movement of Yezo Virus, Japan

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The Hill

APRIL 16, 2025

The CDC report, released Tuesday, found that 1 in 31 children in the United States were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in 2022, an increase from the 2020 rate of 1 in 36 children. Its to their benefit to normalize it, to say, 'Oh this is all normal, its always been there.'

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Preventing Chronic Disease

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Swine Influenza A Viruses, Cambodia

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The Hill

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Selling flavored nicotine vapes has been banned in New York since 2020, but the products can still be found in corner stores and smoke shops in the city.

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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.

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The Hindu

MARCH 20, 2025

The market for anti-obesity drugs in India has seen exponential growth, swelling from 137 crore in November 2020 to 535 crore in November 2024

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 12, 2024

New findings document fewer ship tracks, reduced cloud cover, and boosted warming after ship emissions regulations took effect in 2020.

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Black Health Matters

APRIL 16, 2025

BHM: Progress on cutting unnecessary C-sections has stalled since 2020. Leading up to 2020, we were seeing progress in reducing C-section rates for low-risk, first-time mothers. What’s holding things back? The culture of the hospital, as well as its architectural design, plays a significant role in shaping C-section rates.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The data come from more than 800 samples collected in and around the Huanan Seafood Wholesale market beginning on January 1, 2020, and from viral genomes reported from early COVID-19 patients. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomic data released by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A 2020 microlensing event was caused by a planetary system with an Earth-like planet and brown dwarf. The star type was uncertain. The team has determined that the star is a white dwarf, a system resembling what our sun-Earth system will look like in 8 billion years.

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News Medical Health Sciences

APRIL 8, 2025

Asthma + Lung UK is a British charity formed in January 2020, with a dedication to improving respiratory health by focusing on asthma and lung diseases. Research from Asthma + Lung UK has found a significant rise in Accident and Emergency (A&E) visits from people experiencing breathing issues such as asthma.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Of the specialty generic drugs analyzed in this report and dispensed by the Big Three PBMs affiliated pharmacies for commercial (meaning employers) health plan members between 2020 and 2022, 63% were reimbursed at rates marked up by more than 100% over their estimated acquisition cost while 22% were marked up by more than 1,000%, the report showed.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Higher temperatures caused by anthropogenic climate change turned an ordinary drought into an exceptional one that parched the American West from 2020--22. A study has found that evaporation accounted for 61% of the drought's severity, while reduced precipitation accounted for 39%.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

AUGUST 27, 2024

A pioneering study titled 'Causal effect of video gaming on mental well-being in Japan 2020-2022,' published in Nature Human Behaviour, has conducted the most comprehensive investigation to date on the causal relationship between video gaming and mental well-being.

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The Hill

JANUARY 6, 2025

The participants had infections stemming from COVID-19 variants like the original strain from 2020, the delta variant and the omicron variant. The group included people who had COVID infections between 2020 to 2023. The participants took Paxlvoid from seven-and-a-half days to 30 days.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 25, 2025

The hospital, which came under the UNC Health umbrella in 2020, delivers about 1,300 babies every year. (Photo from UNC Health Southeastern) Doctors, nurses and midwives can now streamline their workflow to better access and provide care to patients, said Renae Taylor, vice president and chief nursing officer at UNC Health Southeastern.

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News Medical Health Sciences

JANUARY 22, 2025

Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with covid.

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The Hindu

JANUARY 11, 2025

The studyestimatedsugar-sweetened beverage-attributabletype 2 diabetesandcardiovascular diseaseburdens across 184 countries in 1990 and 2020

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The Hill

JANUARY 23, 2025

The highest point for the very satisfied share came in January 2020, right before the COVID-19 pandemic. Republicans who said they are very satisfied in their personal lives fell 43 points, from 80 percent in 2020 to 37 percent in 2025.

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The Hill

MARCH 13, 2025

Among respondents aged 18-29, those saying their mental health was excellent dropped by 27 points, in 2010-2014, to 24 percent between 2020 and 2024. For those between ages of 30 and 49, the rating dropped by 16 points to 30 percent who reported excellent mental health.

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News Medical Health Sciences

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Head and neck cancers are the seventh most common type of cancer worldwide, according to the 2020 World Cancer Report. Smokers and drinkers, as well as those with HPV infections, are disproportionately affected.

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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 2020.

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The Hill

MARCH 26, 2025

Researchers assessed data from 16 million patients from 2006 to 2020 and compared the effects of users taking semaglutide-based drugs to those taking Contrave , a bupropion/naltrexone drug. Semaglutide, the main ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy , has been linked to an increased likelihood of hair loss.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

They currently spend just under $4 billion in 2020. The Deloitte report says that in the second quarter of 2020 the largest 100 banks in the USA reported $103.4 2020 became the year when a lot of customers first experienced their remote interaction with banks and enjoyed it. The banking industry is among them.

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Science Daily: Pharmacology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The sample landed with CE-5 in late 2020 and included a new mineral, Changesite-(Y), as well as a perplexing combination of silica minerals. China's Chang'e-5, the first lunar sample return mission since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, delivered 1.73 kilograms of regolith from the Oceanus Procellarum, a plane named for its vast size.

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NC Health News

MAY 13, 2025

We are still down almost 2 percent of our workforce since early 2020, but now we find ourselves facing new challenges like this that may force us to reduce caregiver wages and cut other nonessential staff. He added that many of the states nursing facilities are in urgent need of capital upgrades.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Erica Hayes, 40, has not felt healthy since November 2020 when she first fell ill with covid. Good Science Takes Time In December 2020, Congress appropriated $1.15 Hayes is too sick to work, so she has spent much of the last four years sitting on her beige couch, often curled up under an electric blanket.

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Smart Data Collective

DECEMBER 11, 2020

However, with the cloud service industry generating just under $40 billion in 2019, and exceeding that in 2020, the clear sign is that software developers are going to have to make the shift to cloud services as early as possible. The big trend of 2020 was all set to be 5G, but global events largely hindered the rollout.

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NC Health News

MARCH 18, 2025

Few psychiatric mental health nurses work in rural areas, the nurses association found in a 2020 survey. Only 41 percent of youth who are having a major depressive episode get treatment, the group said. Nurse practitioner Ivy Bagley (left) poses with some of her fellow graduates.

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Preventing Chronic Disease

MAY 7, 2025

PCR and Sequencing for Pediatric Infection

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The Hill

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The study, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, found that heavy alcohol use from 2018 to 2020 jumped by 20 percent, and then increased another 4 percent from 2020 to 2022. The spike in drinking alcohol was seen in all regions of the U.S., races and genders, besides Asian Americans and Native Americans.

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