Public Health Insider
FEBRUARY 27, 2025
We have identified a new case of measles in an infant in King County. People who were at certain locations in King County may have been exposed. People who are vaccinated are very well protected. See full blog for a list of exposure locations: The post First measles case of 2025 in Washington state identified in a King County infant appeared first on PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER.
NPR Health
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that just nine children's cereal brands advertised directly to kids dominated purchases by families with kids:Cocoa Puffs, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms, Pebbles, Reese's Puffs, Toast Crunch and Trix.'/> One of the top sources of added sugar in kids' diets is in their breakfast bowls.
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Public Health Blog
MARCH 31, 2025
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NC Health News
MARCH 3, 2025
By Rachel Crumpler A handful of men in orange jumpsuits gather around tables in a specialized unit on the second floor of the Mecklenburg County Detention Center. They turn their attention to a whiteboard with the words defendant, “judge, defense attorney, district attorney, jury and other legal terms written on it. A mental health clinician is there to lead a group lesson on the roles and responsibilities of court personnel.
UK Health Security
MARCH 24, 2025
UKHSAs most recent data on tuberculosis (TB) revealed a rise in reported numbers in England by 13% in 2024 (5,480) compared to 2023 (4,850). This signals a rebound to above the pre-COVID-19 numbers, despite significant progress towards a decline in TB over the last few decades. In this blog post, we outline the trends and patterns healthcare professionals should remain alert for, to help prevent the disease spreading further.
Environmental Health News
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
It was planting day. In prior weeks, our students voted on the vegetables they wanted to grow and began preparing for that day. We left the seeds to germinate in old egg cartons filled with soil and created colorful popsicle stick labels as we waited for the seedlings to grow enough to take root in their new homes in an old greenhouse at the top of the school building in Camden, New Jersey.
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The Hill
MARCH 5, 2025
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.s rhetoric on Texass measles outbreak is concerning physicians, who fear his public guidance is misguided and verges on being dangerous as he promotes vitamins and steroids as ways of treating infections. The Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS) says 159 measles cases have been identified, including one unvaccinated child who died last week shortly after being hospitalized.
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Greg Herbruck knew 6.5 million of his birds needed to die, and fast. But the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch wasn’t sure how the family egg producer (one of the largest in the U.S., in business for over three generations) was going to get through it, financially or emotionally. One staffer broke down in Herbruck’s office in tears. “The mental toll on our team of dealing with that many dead chickens is just, I mean, you can’t imagine it,” Herbruck said. “
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 04 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-024-00635-w Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, uncompensable thresholds) were crossed for ~2% and 21% of global land area for young adults and older adults, respectively, from 1994 to 2023.
Your Local Epidemiologist
APRIL 1, 2025
Today thousands of health workers at the CDC and FDA lost their jobs—effective immediately. Some found out when they tried to badge in, only to be denied entry. Twelve senior leaders were offered reassignment—with just 24 hours to decide. In other words, fired without being formally fired. It’s cruel and unnecessary—and that’s the point.
Public Health Insider
MARCH 7, 2025
Public Health has learned that two children in King County have died from complications of the flu. The first child was an elementary-age child who passed away on February 14, 2025. The second was a preschool-age child who passed away on February 21, 2025. These two unconnected cases are the first two recorded pediatric flu deaths this season in King County.
NPR Health
JANUARY 28, 2025
Bird flu, or avian influenza, is spreading among livestock and other mammals in the United States, raising concerns that another pandemic may be looming. Last month, California declared a state of emergency due to rising cases in dairy cattle, and there have been over 65 human cases in the U.S. during this outbreak. While cases have been largely mild and risk to the public is still considered low, scientists warn it could evolve and become more dangerous.
National Council on Urban Indian Health
JANUARY 31, 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WASHINGTON, D.C. (January 31, 2025) The National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) today urged Congress, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to exempt the Indian Health System from any future funding restrictions or pauses. This call to action comes in response to recent events that temporarily froze resources critical to the operation of Tribal health care and Urban Indian Organization (UIO) facilities.
Association of Health Care Journalists
MARCH 3, 2025
Most publications in 2025 write about the pandemic as though its over, but as of February 15, 2025, 1.1% of all U.S. deaths in the past week were due to COVID-19. Even in 2023 the most recent year for which data are available COVID-19 remained one of the top 10 causes of death in the U.S., and long COVID continues to be a major cause of disability in the country.
UK Health Security
MARCH 7, 2025
Lassa virus under a microscope. Image courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention You may have seen media reports about a person who travelled to the UK who was ill with Lassa fever while in the country. While Lassa fever is rare in the UK, we have previous experience with a small number of cases in the UK, most recently in 2022. We are well equipped to identify people who have Lassa fever and work to limit the spread of infection, for example, through contact tracing activities.
Environmental Health News
MARCH 3, 2025
PITTSBURGH A local advocacy group has launched a new, real-time air monitoring website for communities impacted by air pollution from Shells massive petrochemical complex and other industrial sites in western Pennsylvania. The website, launched by the Beaver County Marcellus Awareness Community (BCMAC), and dubbed Eyes on Air , includes data from five new air monitors the group placed in communities throughout Beaver County, which is home to the petrochemical complex Shell Polymers Monaca.
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
MARCH 24, 2025
Maintaining a healthy diet rich in plant-based foods, with low to moderate intake of healthy animal-based foods and lower intake of ultra-processed foods, was linked to a higher likelihood of healthy aging -- defined as reaching age 70 free of major chronic diseases and with cognitive, physical, and mental health maintained, according to a new study.
The Hill
MARCH 18, 2025
A United Nations food agency warned that the continued spread of the H5N1 bird flu virus is an unprecedented food security risk that requires a coordinated global response. In a briefing held on Monday, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations cited the loss of hundreds of millions of poultry around the world and the increasing spillover into mammals as key concerns stemming from the spread of the H5N1 bird flu.
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age children from Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. Since an estimated 1 in 5 people with the disease end up in the hospital, the two cases suggested a larger outbreak. As of Feb. 6, there were 12 confirmed cases and health officials expected an additional six, said Zach Holbrooks, executive director of the South Plains Public Health District, which includes Gaines.
HEALTHBEAT
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. Infectious disease specialists throughout Georgia have worked rapidly over the past few weeks to respond to a measles outbreak in the metro Atlanta area, according to the Gwinnett, Newton, and Rockdale Public Health Departments. At the Gwinnett County Board of Health meeting Monday, epidemiology program manager Keisha Francis-Christian provided more information about how local health agencies have responded to
Your Local Epidemiologist
MARCH 14, 2025
With measles cases rising across the country, I’ve been getting a lot of questions (especially after that Hannity interview yesterday)! Here are your top 10 answered. TL;DR: MMR vaccines are highly effective and provide long-lasting protection. Outbreaks occur mainly among unvaccinated individuals. 1. What is “up-to-date” on the measles vaccine?
Public Health Insider
APRIL 2, 2025
Snohomish county reported a positive measles case in a Snohomish County infant. The infant was likely exposed to measles during recent travel abroad. People who were at certain locations in Snohomish and King counties may have been exposed to measles. Read the blog for locations of potential exposure. The post New measles case identified in Snohomish County infant appeared first on PUBLIC HEALTH INSIDER.
NPR Health
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The alleged link between vaccines and autism was first published in 1998, in a since-retracted study in medical journal The Lancet. The claim has been repeatedly disproven: there is no evidence that vaccines and autism are related. But by the mid-2000s, the myth was out there, and its power was growing, fueled by distrust of government, misinformation, and high-profile boosters like Jim Carrey and Robert F.
NC Health News
MARCH 18, 2025
By Jennifer Fernandez As the mental health crisis for adults and kids worsened during the COVID-19 pandemic, Ivy Bagley decided to go back to school for one more certification. A nurse practitioner for 17 years, Bagley saw more and more children needing help in eastern North Carolina. Many ended up waiting months for appointments or being sent to doctors an hour or more away, she said.
Association of Health Care Journalists
MARCH 4, 2025
We shared part 1 of a Q&A yesterday with Betsy Ladyzhets and Miles Griffis , the journalists who founded The Sick Times in 2023, a publication focusing on COVID-19, long COVID and related long-term conditions of viral illnesses. Check out how they came up with the idea of starting The Sick Times and secured funding. Then read on about how their approach to covering COVID and long COVID differs from mainstream publications, their tips for reporting on long COVID and how journalists can write
Public Health Blog
MARCH 10, 2025
Public health is a multifaceted field that brings together stakeholders from diverse backgrounds, often with differing or competing interests. Yet, collaboration and stakeholder buy-in are essential to driving effective public health interventions. But what happens when stakeholders cannot reach an agreement?
Environmental Health News
FEBRUARY 21, 2025
Editors note: A version of this op-ed was originally published on Matthew Tejadas LinkedIn profile. There is a lot of misinformation out there, much of it quite intentional, about what environmental justice, or EJ, is. As a result, billions of dollars in funding and technical assistance that flows directly to communities and their partners has been jeopardized and the EPA EJ staff who oversee the use of these funds have largely been put on leave.
Science Daily: Pharmacology News
JANUARY 2, 2025
Researchers have successfully repaired damaged mouse hearts using a protein from zebrafish. They discovered that the protein Hmga1 plays a key role in heart regeneration in zebrafish. In mice, this protein was able to restore the heart by activating dormant repair genes without causing side effects, such as heart enlargement. This study marks an important step toward regenerative therapies to prevent heart failure.
The Hill
FEBRUARY 26, 2025
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made psychiatric medications a focus of his review of the countrys childhood chronic disease crisis, claiming theyve been insufficiently scrutinized and are addictive. Childhood psychiatrists insist the drugs, for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression, are nonaddictive and proven safe and say they are more concerned about young Americans unable to access psychiatric medications that could help.
KFF Health News
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
A Kentucky county nestled in the heart of Appalachia, where the opioid crisis has wreaked devastation for decades, spent $15,000 of its opioid settlement money on an ice rink. That amount wasn’t enough to solve the county’s troubles, but it could have bought 333 kits of Narcan, a medication that can reverse opioid overdoses. Instead, people are left wondering how a skating rink addresses addiction or fulfills the settlement money’s purpose of remediating the harms of opioids.
HEALTHBEAT
JANUARY 23, 2025
Sign up for Your Local Epidemiologist New York and get Dr. Marisa Donnellys community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. Covid-19 is here to stay, and with it come persistent and potentially life-altering symptoms from Covid-19 infections, also known as Long Covid. This is where most concerns lie for the majority of us when encountering Covid-19.
Your Local Epidemiologist
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
The past few weeks have brought significant changes to public health, much of it shaped by shifting political priorities. As we’ve navigated these shifts, some of you have shared that you’d rather focus on the science/data and skip the policy discussions. If that’s you, you can adjust your settings HERE to receive only “The Dose”— your weekly roundup of practical public health insights.
Public Health Insider
MARCH 24, 2025
In 2023 and 2024, tuberculosis (TB) re-claimed its long-held status as the worlds deadliest infectious disease. Globally, 10.8 million people developed TB disease in 2023, including 1.25 million people who died of TB disease. For this year's World TB Day on March 24, lets take a closer look at whats happening in King County and how our community is working to stop this disease.
NPR Health
MARCH 11, 2025
Five years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, the virus continues to spread around the globe as the virus continues to evolve. Scientists say that's likely to continue indefinitely, as the virus finds new ways to evade the human immune system. At the moment, the virus has faded into the background of daily life even as people still get sick, end up in the hospital and sometimes die.
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