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In Two States, Transforming the Model for Palliative Care

WEBPalliative care is poised to be a game changer for public health. Nearly 50 percent of states now include palliative care services for eligible Medicaid recipients, …

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For Many Disabled Patients, the Doctor Is Often Not In

WEBThe work, which analyzed focus group discussions with 22 physicians, adds context to a larger study published February 2021, also in Health Affairs, that showed …

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Are Evidence-Based Medicine and Public Health …

WEBOver the past 30 years, EBM has transformed the practice of medicine worldwide. Whether it can transform the practice of public health — which focuses not …

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A Gauntlet of Hardship: Health Care in Afghanistan

WEBThe equipment shortages and physical threats take their toll, and the country’s health care woes are compounded by the steady loss of expertise as …

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Interview: Uncertainty, Science, and Public Health …

WEBThe results, published earlier this year in the journal Public Understanding of Science, were pretty straightforward: “Communicating uncertainty buffers against a loss …

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How U.S. Hospitals Undercut Public Health

WEB10.05.2023. Health care in the United States — the largest industry in the world’s largest economy — is notoriously cost inefficient, consuming substantially more money per …

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Opinion: The Impossible Goal of a Disease-Free World

WEBBy Joanna Thompson. 05.09.2024. For centuries, people have dreamed of a world without disease. The myriad medical breakthroughs in the 20th century — which included …

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Book Review: The Untapped Knowledge of Animals

WEBBy Hillary Rosner. 05.17.2024. In the spring of 2022, while conducting research for a book, I spoke with a bird biologist who was studying meadowlarks, a …

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In Montana, Tracking Long-Term Health Effects of …

WEBMany people stayed. That made Seeley Lake an ideal place to track the long-term health of people inundated by wildfire pollution. So far, researchers have …

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Could ‘Science Courts’ Help Build Public Trust

WEBI n 2022, Wellcome Connecting Science, a genomic science program funded by the Wellcome Trust, organized a citizens’ jury to ask whether the U.K. government …

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A Rare Risk of Asteroid Fastballs Turns Scientists Into Sluggers

WEBThen, at 7:14 p.m., a roughly 1,300-pound spacecraft slammed head-on into the asteroid. Within a few minutes, members of the mission team in Kenya and South …

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To Boost Black Men in Medicine, Advocates Turn to Sports

WEBLikewise, a 2011 study found that having an elite skill, such as high-achieving athletics, was more predictive of completing a general surgery residency than …

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In Millions of Homes, High Fluoride in Tap Water May Be a Concern

WEBLost in that debate are the roughly 3 million Americans whose water naturally contains higher concentrations of fluoride — often at levels that even some fluoridation …

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Low-frequency Noise Is Pervasive. Does That Matter

WEBIts findings suggested that low frequency noise “may have possible mutagenic effects and cause massive cell death.”. Meanwhile, a 2014 study involving …

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Artificial Intelligence Could Improve Health Care for All — Unless it

WEBIf AI works as promised, it could democratize health care by boosting access for underserved communities and lowering costs — a boon in the United States, which …

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Power Outages Are Increasing. Can Medical Equipment Users Adapt

WEBSlightly more than two-thirds of Texans lost power at some point from Feb. 14 to 20 — outages that averaged a total of 42 hours, according to a University of …

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Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head

WEBBerridge retired from the agency in the spring of 2023, upset by the handling of the fluoride report. “That’s not the way I want to do science,” he said. “So I decided to …

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Virtual Clinics Embrace Allergy Drops as an Alternative to Shots

WEBTheir social media ads showcase sublingual drops as a “convenient alternative to allergy shots” with “no trips to the doctor’s office or prickly needles.”. Some …

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Stress in Utero: Covid Chaos and Babies’ Future Health

WEBFor more than 30 years, researchers have observed a link between a pregnant person’s external environment and the health of the developing fetus. …

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In Remote Ecuador, Pandemic Health Care Is Stretched Thin

WEBE arly in the pandemic, Ecuador weathered shortages in everything: face masks, personal protective equipment, medications, and even health care workers. By …

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Wood-burning Stoves Raise New Health Concerns

WEBBut woodsmoke also contains carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, carcinogenic compounds like polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, and volatile …

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