The Health Care Blog

MARCH 2, 2022

Bush espoused the benefits of providing senior citizens with more private health insurance plan options and driving down Medicare spending, but the opposite has occurred. Nirban Singh is an MPH student at Northeastern University with a passion for investigating the role of health policy in creating equitable outcomes.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

JANUARY 21, 2025

trillion agency and far-reaching public health policy. Wellness marketing has made this idea extremely popular, but as a public health policy, it is overly simplistic, biased against technological advances, and can potentially harm our health. ’s eligibility to run a $1.8

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

We tried to do your responses justice in this video: kmpanthagani A post shared by @kmpanthagani In addition, an executive summary of these YLE results was sent to several foundations, health policy leaders in the United States and around the globe, and several Congress members. You can subscribe to her newsletter or Substack.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Bottom line This moment is a big fork in the road—it signals a shift in how health policy, trust, and information will flow within the United States and beyond. In her free time, she is the creator of the medical blog You Can Know Things and author of YLE’s section on Health (Mis)communication.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

But pretending that most public health policies were largely failures isn’t helpful either. Love, YLE and KP Kristen Panthagani, MD, PhD, is a resident physician and Yale Emergency Scholar, completing a combined Emergency Medicine residency and research fellowship focusing on health literacy and communication.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

APRIL 10, 2025

Health literacy is key here especially for vulnerable readers who may not have the time or resources to dig through scientific studies themselves. How can families know how much fluoride theyre exposed to through water, toothpaste, or diet? In short: this story is about more than fluoride.

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