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Star2.com
April 16, 2018
Many communicable diseases have been eradicated or controlled globally through Public Health measures, which include health protection from environmental threats like mosquito-borne diseases or food poisoning; health improvement such as smoking cessation; and ensuring healthcare services areÃâà...
Futurity: Research News
April 16, 2018
But we have to go with the best evidence available,” says Kenneth Warner, former dean of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and professor emeritus of public health and professor emeritus of health management and policy. “I believe the case is strong; the benefits outweigh the risks.”.
Scranton Times-Tribune
April 15, 2018
As the nation wages war with what's increasingly called a “polysubstance” epidemic, involving far more drugs than just opioids, scientists and public health officials say they lack sufficient data to fight it. “A future drug epidemic could even be more problematic with the current gaps that we have in our data,”Ãâà...
Buffalo News
April 15, 2018
Next week has been designated National Infant Immunization Week, an annual observance to promote the benefits of immunizations and to improve the health of children two years old or younger. Through immunization, infants and children can be protected from 14 vaccine-preventable diseases beforeÃâà...
New Hampshire Public Radio
April 15, 2018
The public health alert comes after the Food and Drug Administration issued a recall on those products after finding several to be contaminated with salmonella. The products include Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Emerald Green, Raw Form Organics Maeng Da Kratom Ivory White, and Raw FormÃâà...
Newsweek
April 15, 2018
Companies can no longer sell bulk packages of liquid or powdered caffeine directly to consumers, the Food and Drug Administration announced Friday. The policy will take immediate effect “given the significant public health concern,” according to the agency's statement released Friday. “HighlyÃâà...
The Newark Advocate
April 15, 2018
The first week each April is designated as National Public Health Week. We talk about the term “public health,” but the reality is that typically most people have a limited idea of what public health is. Maybe they think of immunizations, or free clinics, or even inspecting restaurants. So much of public health'sÃâà...
STAT
April 14, 2018
This would sabotage the census, seriously compromise vital public health research, and ultimately damage the public's health. In my own work designing and administering public health surveys, I rely on data from the decennial census to ensure accurate representation. These data form the basis for anyÃâà...
Carroll County Times
April 1, 2018
April 2 through April 8 is National Public Health Week and, in Carroll County, the health department is celebrating by inviting the community in to see just what public health is all about. From 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, the health department will open its doors at 290 S. Center St., Westminster, for anÃâà...
WHMI
April 1, 2018
“Changing Our Future Together” is themes for this year's National Public Health Week, happening April 2nd through the 8th. The Livingston County Health Department is getting involved with the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to live a long, healthy life, free of preventable disease and injury.
Aspen Times
April 1, 2018
We are so fortunate to be able to live, work and play in Pitkin County. In 2018, County Health Rankings and Roadmaps ranked Pitkin among the top 10 counties in Colorado for length and quality of life. We are privileged to have access to spectacular recreational trails, a top-notch school system, freeÃâà...
Sampson Independent
April 1, 2018
During the first full week of April each year, the American Public Health Association (APHA) brings communities across the United States together to observe National Public Health Week as a time to recognize the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important to improving our nation.
Los Angeles Times
March 31, 2018
Dr. Frank Hu, chair of the nutrition department at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, pointed out that coffee has been found to reduce the risk of diabetes and heart disease. The latest American dietary guidelines say the beverage is OK to drink (up to 5 cups a day). He said the ruling seemedÃâà...
St. James Plaindealer
March 31, 2018
Public Health Nurses follow up with residents who have either been exposed to Tuberculosis (TB) or have active Tuberculosis. Nurses provide education about TB. They can also facilitate residents getting medications to treat the TB. The nurse assistance and the medications are provided at no charge.
ModernHealthcare.com
March 31, 2018
The $1.5 trillion tax bill included a $750 million cut from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, established under the Affordable Care Act. The fund makes up roughly 12% of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's annual budget and funds state and local preventive health programs. In FebruaryÃâà...
Bellefontaine Examiner
March 31, 2018
Officials of the Logan County Health District are promoting National Public Health Week for Monday, April 2, through Friday, April 6, with displays and information in the lobby of the 310 S. Main St. office, along with a DVD about public health's role in the community. Themes for each day during the weekÃâà...
Press Herald
March 31, 2018
April 2-8 is National Public Health Week, which means that several organizations across the state, including Portland's Division of Public Health, will be holding events and sharing information to educate and promote awareness about public health. (To see a list of events, visit the Maine Public HealthÃâà...
The Lund Report
March 31, 2018
A series of panel discussions, presentations, films, story sessions and more will dig into public health topics focused on closing the health equity gap in underserved and unrepresented communities in Oregon. Oregon Public Health Week is an opportunity to promote the state's public health systems,Ãâà...
WQAD.com
March 31, 2018
Public Health managers in Peoria are issuing their own warning after seeing some people with “life-threatening” bleeding after they smoked synthetic marijuana.Dr. Gary Knepp with UnityPoint Health in Peoria said Wednesday that the synthetic marijuana that's causing the problems has been sprayed withÃâà...
Bangor Daily News
March 30, 2018
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services says it's rebuilding the ranks of public health nurses, whose numbers fell by more than two-thirds during the first seven years of Gov. Paul LePage's administration. But the department is hiring more slowly than required by a 2017 law ordering the stateÃâà...
Steuben Courier
March 30, 2018
The Schuyler County Public Health Department will conduct an emergency drill from 10 a.m. to noon April 10 at the Human Services Complex, 323 Owego St., Montour Falls. This drill will help the community prepare for public health emergencies that could happen in the county by allowing the departmentÃâà...
Beckley Register-Herald
March 30, 2018
“Harm reduction programs are an extremely important set of public health strategies and interventions that aim to reduce morbidity and mortality among substance users,” said DHHR Cabinet Secretary Bill J. Crouch. “We believe an effective harm reduction program can be operated that protects the publicÃâà...
Fairfield Daily Republic
March 30, 2018
FAIRFIELD — The United States doubles what other industrial nations spend on health care, but ranks 37th in overall health. Gerald Huber, director of the Solano County Department of Health and Social Services, cited the ranking from a report by a health economist and futurist hired by Partnership Health Plan. The reportÃâà...
Hometown Focus
March 30, 2018
ST. LOUIS COUNTY – The role of public health nurses and educators is continually changing as they identify needs and work to help both individuals one-on-one and larger groups to create community- or system-wide change. Many of these efforts focus on the broad goal of ensuring that all people haveÃâà...
Buffalo News
March 30, 2018
Participate in the University at Buffalo Step Challenge next month and it might extend your life. The challenge – free and open to all – is among activities set to launch next week as part of National Public Health Week, designed to highlight the role that health policy and planning can make on the well-beingÃâà...
CityLab
March 30, 2018
This is one of the takeaways of sixth edition of The Tobacco Atlas, a multimedia publication from the public health nonprofit Vital Strategies that focuses on tobacco control issues. The document provides resources on the whole chain of tobacco use, from production and marketing to addiction, quitting, andÃâà...
NUjournal
March 30, 2018
The Springfield Community Wellness Committee is a well-deserved recipient of this year's award, the Brown County Public Health Department said. “When the opportunity presented itself to nominate a community group for the partnership award for promoting the health of the public, the SpringfieldÃâà...
The Courier
March 30, 2018
The Hancock Public Health board approved a motion Thursday to have a “letter of intent” drafted by legal counsel and sent to the owner of a property that the board would like to acquire. Hancock Public Health officials would like to move the agency out of cramped quarters on County Road 140.
Wichita Eagle
March 30, 2018
National Public Health Week begins Monday and it's a great time to be appreciative of the people and organizations who give Americans opportunities to improve their physical and mental well-being. It's also a time to remember even the smallest things enable us to be our healthiest. We can all be a part ofÃâà...
Atlanta Journal Constitution
March 30, 2018
On April 2, a $2 million public health center will open at 3001 South Cobb Drive, Smyrna. (Courtesy of Cobb and Douglas Public Health). Cobb and Douglas Public Health will open a public health center on April 2 to expand access to public health services in the Smyrna area. The new Smyrna PublicÃâà...
Roanoke Times
March 29, 2018
James Schlitt on Wednesday shared his work at the Biocomplexity Institute of Virginia Tech during the Virginia Public Health and Healthcare Preparedness Academy in Roanoke. His ChatterGrabber is trained to mine tweets for talk about specific illnesses. And with that information, public health officials canÃâà...
Environmental Working Group
March 16, 2018
Those of us in the public health sector started to realize years ago that there were potential risks, then the industry rolled out faster than we could do our science. Now we see those risks have turned into human harms and people are getting sick. And we in this field have a moral imperative to raise the alarmÃâà...
Albany Democrat Herald
March 16, 2018
One criticism of the county health rankings in the past has been that some of the factors measured are well beyond the control of local public health officials. That's still true: Health Department workers can't do anything about the county unemployment rate and certainly don't have any magic bullet to reduceÃâà...
EcoWatch
March 16, 2018
Coca-Cola intentionally funded the Global Energy Balance Network (GEBN) as a "weapon" in a "growing war between the public health community and private industry" on the causes of obesity, according to a press release sent to EcoWatch by consumer group U.S. Right to Know. The quotes come from documentsÃâà...
Dallas News (blog)
March 16, 2018
As a trauma surgeon with experience treating devastating firearm injuries, I cannot comprehend why Congress has doubled down on a decades-old law restricting funding for research on gun violence. Lawmakers reaffirmed their dereliction in 2016 when they ignored the collective voice of 141 medicalÃâà...
Stratford Star
March 15, 2018
During the week of April 2-8 the Stratford Health Department will join communities around the nation to observe National Public Health Week with a common theme — Healthiest Nation by 2030. This week is a time to celebrate the contributions of public health and highlight issues that are important toÃâà...
Contagionlive.com
March 15, 2018
“Molecular surveillance is an advanced public health technology that we believe will enable state and local health departments to more quickly and efficiently identify where HIV transmission may be occurring and how to efficiently intervene to stop it,” Dr. France explained. The findings emphasize howÃâà...
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
March 15, 2018
Diane Thorson, Public Health Director and PartnerSHIP4Health's Jason McCoy, Tobacco Prevention Coordinator, addressed the county board of commissioners on Tuesday to ask for changes to the county tobacco ordinances. Proposed changes include establishing minimum setbacks in public entrancesÃâà...
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
March 15, 2018
From outdoors to public health: one man's path to become Bozeman's first affordable housing manager. By Katheryn ... He worked as a health educator in Wisconsin for AmeriCorps before moving to Colorado for graduate school, where he got his masters from the Colorado School of Public Health.
FDA.gov
March 15, 2018
When I returned to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last year, it was immediately clear that tackling tobacco use – and cigarette smoking in particular – would be one of the most important actions I could take to advance public health. With that in mind, we're taking a pivotal step today that couldÃâà...
Newsweek
March 15, 2018
Travelers through three different airports in the U.S. are being warned by public health officials to check for symptoms of measles after two cases of the viral infection were confirmed in recent visitors. A boy with measles arrived from Brussels at Terminal B of Newark Liberty International Airport on March 12Ãâà...
Science Magazine
March 14, 2018
SHANGHAI, CHINA—China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change—while raising questions about the management of basic research. The draft plan, which is expected to be adopted in theÃâà...
The Hub at Johns Hopkins
March 14, 2018
When Tara Loyd, MPH '08, arrived at Hopkins in 2007, she had a plan. She was 30 years old and fresh from a position in Lesotho, a country in southern Africa, where she'd volunteered with Partners In Health and co-founded a safehouse and outreach program for children orphaned by HIV. Loyd came toÃâà...
Utica Observer Dispatch
March 12, 2018
Herkimer County Public Health will be having a mass “mock vaccination dispensing drill,” and is asking for volunteers, according to a news release from the health organization. The drill, which will be from 10 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, March 28, will give participants a “mock vaccination to test theÃâà...
West Central Tribune
March 12, 2018
Jill Bruns, director of the county's public health services, told the Renville County Board of Commissioners that she had believed that the home health service was among a number of tax-exempt services the department provides. She was wrong, she told the commissioners at their March 6 meeting.
BBC News
March 12, 2018
A council dubbed the "worst-run in the country" is under investigation over allegations it used millions of pounds ring-fenced for public health to prop up other services. Northamptonshire County Council is in talks with Public Health England about the possible "claw-back" of up to Ãâã10m. It comes after theÃâà...
NPR
March 12, 2018
One week after a Russian ex-spy and his daughter were found poisoned by a nerve agent in Salisbury, British officials are ramping up their probe into the attack, bringing military troops into the city and issuing their first public health advisory. This after "trace contamination" was found in The Mill Pub andÃâà...
WIRED
March 9, 2018
As Brazil's health authorities scramble to contain the worst yellow fever outbreak in decades, WhatsApp's misinformation trade threatens to go from destabilizing to deadly. Hotlittlepotato. In remote areas of Brazil's Amazon basin, yellow fever used to be a rare, if regular visitor. Every six to ten years, duringÃâà...
KIMT 3
March 9, 2018
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Arizona Capitol Times
March 9, 2018
It should come as no surprise that the February 23 guest commentary, “Taxpayers shouldn't feel bubbly about taxing sugary beverages” by Thomas Aiello, was penned by a Washington D.C. lobbyist, not someone with expertise in public health who is watching the state Legislature preemptively push backÃâà...
