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Human, Bird, or Dog Waste? Scientists Parsing Poop To Aid DC’s Forgotten River

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

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What Is a Global Health Professional?

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Prepare for a Career in Global Health Are you ready to promote health equity across the globe? Consider a career as a global health professional and assist in expanding public health policy across national borders. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Health Education Specialists U.S.

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How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic

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. “If you want to keep this from becoming a human pandemic, you focus on protecting farmworkers, since that’s the most likely way that this will enter the human population,” said Peg Seminario, an occupational health researcher in Bethesda, Maryland. “The fact that this isn’t happening drives me crazy.”

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How America lost control of the bird flu, setting the stage for another pandemic

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If you want to keep this from becoming a human pandemic, you focus on protecting farmworkers, since thats the most likely way that this will enter the human population, said Peg Seminario, an occupational health researcher in Bethesda, Maryland. The fact that this isnt happening drives me crazy.

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Hospital Gun-Violence Prevention Programs May Be Caught in US Funding Crossfire

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The community-based clinic provides wound-care kits; physical therapy; and behavioral, mental and occupational health care. Since 2010, AIM has grown from three full-time outreach workers to nine, and this year opened the REACH Clinic in Denver’s Five Points neighborhood. Learn more about KFF.

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KFF Health News' 'What the Health?': Public Health and the Dairy Cow in the Room

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The Host Julie Rovner KFF Health News @jrovner Read Julie's stories. Julie Rovner is chief Washington correspondent and host of KFF Health News’ weekly health policy news podcast, “What the Health?” It’s coming from HHS [the Department of Health and Human Services].