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Public health data modernization: moving from challenges to solutions

Big Cities Health Coalition

Public health professionals need data so they can detect patterns and determine which solutions work best for their community. The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated the major gaps in our local public health infrastructure and how badly governmental public health needs resources to modernize systems for detection and response.

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Tetanus: What to Do About This Deadly Infection?

Gideon

Epidemiology: Recent and Older Outbreaks Worldwide, cases have declined rapidly due to mass immunization drives by various governments and public health agencies. Spores of the bacterium, Clostridium tetani , enter our bodies and spread all over the nerves in the central nervous system. Is There a Cure for It?

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What RFK Jr. Might Face in His Nomination Hearings This Week

KFF Health News

trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. Here are four considerations for lawmakers on the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees, which will host Kennedy for questioning on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively: 1) Kennedy’s unconventional health claims.

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What RFK Jr. might face in his HHS nomination hearings this week

HEALTHBEAT

trillion, 80,000-employee federal health system. Here are four considerations for lawmakers on the Senate Finance and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees, which will host Kennedy for questioning on Wednesday and Thursday, respectively: 1. is going to be hard to defeat. At the J.P.