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DECEMBER 12, 2024

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JANUARY 10, 2025

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

. “Desafortunadamente, este mosquito va a quedarse aquí Espero que esto ponga en alerta a las personas y las impulse a ser parte de la solución” Esta historia fue producida por Kaiser Health News , que publica California Healthline , un servicio editorialmente independiente de la California Health Care Foundation.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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MARCH 1, 2025

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NC Health News

JANUARY 13, 2025

follow our coverage of ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH UNC Charlotte chemist develops purification system that removes PFAS by Coastal Review Online January 4, 2025 December 23, 2024 What’s coming for 2025? NC Health News reporters look ahead into health policy for the new year.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

. “We have communities in California that are served drinking water that has been out of compliance with regulatory standards for potent toxins like arsenic for years,” said Lara Cushing, an associate professor in UCLA’s Department of Environmental Health Sciences. Learn more about KFF.

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Frontiers

AUGUST 4, 2021

It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 9, 2025

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

JANUARY 30, 2025

To get more public health policy updates and to subscribe to NACCHOs News from Washington weekly newsletter, visit: www.naccho.org/advocacy/news. Contact us at govtaffairs@naccho.org.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

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The NACCHO Podcast Series

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Finally, the team reminds listeners that many public health policy decisions will hinge on the outcome of the upcoming midterm elections and urges everyone to vote. Adriane describes the implications of and discussion around the recent CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices recommendations on the COVID-19 vaccine.

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Environmental Health News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Department of Health and Human Services Why this matters: Kennedys minimal engagement with environmental health risks raises concerns about his approach to climate-related health crises. His views could impact public health initiatives addressing pollution and climate change. Read more: RFK Jr.s nomination

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. I listen for the songs of birds, but all I can hear are generators. Learn more about KFF.

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

County Dispatches Mental Health Workers to Evacuees ” KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFFan independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about KFF.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 28, 2025

National Institutes of Health, like many federal agencies, has experienced unprecedented restrictions on their operations in the new administrations first week, including a communications pause that abruptly halted meetings and workshops , a hiring freeze, and a moratorium on travel.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MAY 7, 2025

These cuts also shrink opportunities for students especially those from underrepresented backgrounds who rely on federally funded scholarships and assistantships to pursue careers in science and health. Many health equity initiatives depend on federal funding. When funding dries up, progress on these urgent issues stalls.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 11, 2025

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DECEMBER 11, 2024

In recent years, landowners expressed reservations about the county’s biosolids program, and in 2024 no farms participated in the practice, said Trey Strickland, manager of the environmental health services division. “It was probably a not in my backyard’ kind of thing,” Strickland said. Learn more about KFF.

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

. “Aside from fluoride’s impacts on neurodevelopment, I think that there is more that we don’t know about health effects of low-level fluoride exposure than what we do know, particularly for adult health outcomes,” Malin said. Learn more about KFF.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. All signs point to systems rooted in the nation’s painful racist history, which even today affects all facets of American life.

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The Health Care Blog

APRIL 23, 2025

Most of us dont know much about coal ash but Environmental Health News warns : Coal ash is one of the largest industrial waste streams in the United States, containing toxic elements such as arsenic, mercury, and lead. But, sure, it wont hurt anything. The EPA is also proposing to loosen rules about coal ash storage and disposal.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

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BU School of Public Health Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

February 15, 2025 Jillian McKoy Megan Jones Twitter Facebook Research has always been a core part of the School of Public Healths mission to promote justice, human rights, and equity across local and global communities.

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KFF Health News

JANUARY 22, 2025

If you enjoyed this story from the KFF Health News social team, follow us on Instagram @kffhealthnews. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFFan independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. ” Scientists and public health officials have long tracked the pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other environmental health hazards and shared them with the public through the local Air Quality Index.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Jeremy Young, productor senior de Fault Lines en Al Jazeera English, colaboró con este informe.

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HEALTHBEAT

APRIL 8, 2025

So, the professor of environmental health at Colorado State University devised a plan to get answers. Scientists and public health officials have long tracked the pollutants that cause smog, acid rain, and other environmental health hazards and shared them with the public through the local Air Quality Index.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This landmark policy comes just months after the EPA finalized the nations first-ever PFAS drinking water standard. In October, the Biden-Harris Administration announced a crucial final rule aimed at eliminating lead pipes from drinking water systems across the United States.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

She cited an environmental consultant’s assessment that the health risk is “below the risk posed by simply walking down the street and breathing air that includes car exhaust.” ” But some environmental health experts say it’s not only a facility’s day-to-day operations that are cause for concern.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism.

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NC Health News

JANUARY 2, 2025

Well be closely following the incoming administrations movements on Medicaid and related health policies in the weeks and months ahead. The National Conference of State Legislatures also predicted addressing the health care workforce shortage as another top issue for state legislatures next year. Take a hike.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

APRIL 10, 2025

Public Health Services recommended level of 0.7 Make connections to broader environmental health concerns. milligrams per liter. If levels are above that, communities may be taking steps to reduce them or not. Thats a story. The fluoride conversation isnt happening in isolation.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

While the campaigns largely focused on immigration, the economy, reproductive rights and democratic principles, the two major party candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump, represent two wildly different approaches to environmental regulation and health policies. environmental health landscape.

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Environmental Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

presidential election on Wednesday and while his campaign largely focused on isolationism, immigration, crime and inflation, his previous record in the White House suggests ramped up domestic fossil fuels production, weakening of laws meant to curb pollution and an overhaul of environmental and health agencies.

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